C program to print x pattern

C program to print x pattern

Output:
CodeRegister

C          r
 o        e 
  d      t  
   e    s   
    R  i    
     eg     
     eg     
    R  i    
   e    s   
  d      t  
 o        e 

C          r

Implementation:

#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { /* Pointer to a character */ char *v; int N,i,j; /* allocate memory block of 256 characters & store the initial address of the block in character pointer 'v' */ v=(char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*256); /* get the input string from the user */ scanf("%s",v); /* calculate the length of the string using strlen() library function */ N=strlen(v); for(i=0;i<N;i++) { for(j=0;j<N;j++) { /* printing left diagonal */ if(i==j) printf("%c",*(v+i)); /* printing right diagonal */ else if(j==(N-i-1)) printf("%c",*(v+j)); /* print a space character ' ' in all other cases */ else printf(" "); } printf("\n"); } return 0; }