C program to print diamond star pattern

Write a C program to print the diamond star(*) pattern series using for loop. How to print diamond star pattern structure using for loop in C programming. The pattern should look like:

    *
   ***
  *****
 *******
*********
 *******
  *****
   ***
    *

Required knowledge:

Basic C programming, For loop

Logic:

At single glance the patter seems difficult to be printed so, to make the pattern easy I have bisected the pattern in two halves. Where the first upper half looks like:

    *
   ***
  *****
 *******
*********

and the lower half looks like:

 *******
  *****
   ***
    *

And if you notice these two patters are simple pyramid (with n rows) and reverse pyramid pattern (with n-1 rows). Hence, we just need to write down the codes of both pyramid and reverse pyramid star pattern one by one to get the final pattern.

Program:

/**
 * C program to print diamond star pattern 
 */

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int i, j, n;

    printf("Enter value of n : ");
    scanf("%d", &n);
    
    //Prints the upper pyramid
    for(i=1; i<=n; i++)
    {
        for(j=i; j<n; j++)
        {
            printf(" ");
        }
        for(j=1; j<=(2*i-1); j++)
        {
            printf("*");
        }
        printf("\n");
    }

    //Prints the lower triangle
    for(i=n; i>=1; i--)
    {
        for(j=i; j<=n; j++)
        {
            printf(" ");
        }
        for(j=2; j<(2*i-1); j++)
        {
            printf("*");
        }
        printf("\n");
    }
    
    return 0;
} 

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Happy coding ;)