Odd length diagonal string pattern

Question

I have written a program to print the given string diagonally (like x)

Input: PROGRAM

Expected output:

P     M
 R   A
  O R
   G
  O R
 R   A
P     M

My output:

P
       M
 R
      A
  O
     R
       G
    R
   O
     A
  R
      M
 P

My Java class:

import java.util.*;

class Codechef
{

    public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
    {
        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
        String s = in.nextLine();
        char[] word = new char[100];
        word = s.toCharArray();
        int count=0;
        int k = s.length()-1;

        for (int i=0;i<s.length();i++){
            for (int j=0;j<s.length();j++){
               if(!(i==k))
                   System.out.println(word[i]);

               for(int x=0;x<s.length()-count;x++)
                   System.out.print(" ");

               System.out.println(word[k]);
               k--;
               count++;

               break; 
            }

            for(int j=0;j<count;j++)
                System.out.print(" ");    
        }
    }

}

Answer 1

Your logic works only upper part of Horizontal line. Go through the below Program:

import java.util.*;

class Codechef
{

    public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
    {
        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
        String s = in.nextLine();
        char[] word = new char[100];
        word = s.toCharArray();
        int k = s.length()-1;
        int x ;

        for (int i=0;i<s.length();i++){
               if((i<k))
               {
                   for (x=0; x<i; x++)
                       System.out.print(" ");
                   System.out.print(word[i]);
                   for ( x=0; x<k-i-1; x++)
                       System.out.print(" ");
                   System.out.println(word[k]);
                   k--;

               }

               else if(i == k){
                   for ( x=0; x<i; x++)
                       System.out.print(" ");
                   System.out.println(word[k]);
                   k--;

               }
               else{
                   for(x = k; x >= 0 ; x--)
                       System.out.print(" ");
                   System.out.print(word[k]);
                   for (x=0; x<i-k-1; x++)
                       System.out.print(" ");
                   System.out.println(word[i]);
                   k--;

               }

            }

    }

}

It gives output as you saying.