Last Updated: 27 Nov, 2020
Starfield
Easy
Ninja loves playing with characters. So one day, he wants to arrange a few characters in the ‘N’ number of rows. The pattern consists of a left triangle a right triangle and a mirror image of the top part below.
You are given an integer ‘N’ denoting the given number of rows. Can you print the pattern Ninja wants to create?
Pattern for N = 3:
* *
* *
* * *
* *
* *
Input Format:
The first line contains ‘T’, denoting the number of test cases.
Each test case contains a single integer ‘N’, denoting the number of rows.
Output Format:
For each test case, print the 'N' strings denoting the required pattern in the following ‘N’ lines.
Note:
You are not required to print the expected output; it has already been taken care of. Just implement the function.
Constraints:
1 <= T <= 10
1 <= N <= 10^3
Time Limit: 1 sec
Approaches
The key here is to traverse all the lines sequentially, and for each line, we print the required character at the given index.
The steps are as follows:
- We define a matrix ‘ans’ to store the final pattern.
- We will iterate over all the rows, i.e., i = 0 to i = N - 1:
- We will run a for loop over the columns i.e., from j = 0 to j = 2 * (N - 1):
- If i is less than j and (i + j) is less than 2 * (N - 1) then continue.
- If (i + j) is odd then continue.
- Else store ‘ * ‘ in ‘ans’.
- We will iterate over all the rows, i.e., i = N - 1 to i = - 1:
- We will run a for loop over the columns i.e., from j = 0 to j = 2 * (N - 1):
- If i is less than j and (i + j) is less than 2 * (N - 1) then continue.
- If (i + j) is odd then continue.
- Else store ‘ * ‘ in ‘ans’.
- We will return ‘ans’ as the final answer.
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