C program to Print Hollow Square Star Pattern

How to write a C Program to Print Hollow Square Star Pattern with example?. And also show you how to print hollow square pattern with different symbols.

C program to Print Hollow Square Star Pattern

This C program allows the user to enter any side of a square (In Square, all sides are equal). This value will decide the number of rows and columns of a hollow square. Here, we are going to print the stars until it reaches the user-specified rows and columns.

/* C Program to Print Hollow Square Star Pattern */
#include<stdio.h>
 
int main()
{
    int i, j, Side;
     
    printf("Please Enter Any Side of a Square\n");
    scanf("%d", &Side);
    
    printf("Printing Hallow Square Star Pattern \n"); 
    for(i = 0; i < Side; i++)
    {
    	for(j = 0; j < Side; j++)
    	{
    	   if(i == 0 || i == Side-1 || j == 0 || j == Side-1)
    	   {
    		printf("*");
	   }
	   else
	   {
		printf(" ");
	   }         
        }
        printf("\n");
    }
    return 0;
}

Let us see the Nested for loop

Outer Loop – First Iteration

From the above screenshot, you can observe that the value of i is 0, and Sides is 7. So, the C Programming condition (i < 7) is True. So, it will enter into second for loop.

Inner Loop – First Iteration
The j value is 0 and the condition (j < 7) is True. So, it will start executing the statement inside the loop. So, it will enter into the If Statement. Here, we are checking whether i = 0, j = 0, i = 6 (side – 1) , or j = 6. If any of this condition is true then the following statement will print *

printf("*");

It happens until it reaches 7, and after that, both the Inner Loop and Outer loop will terminate.

C program to display Hollow Square Star Pattern with Dynamic Character

This program allows the user to enter the Symbol that he/she want to print as a hollow square pattern.

#include<stdio.h>
 
int main()
{
    int i, j, Side;
    char Ch;
	
    printf("Please Enter any Symbol\n");
    scanf("%c", &Ch);
	 
    printf("Please Enter Any Side of a Square\n");
    scanf("%d", &Side);
    
    printf("Printing Hallow Square Star Pattern \n"); 
    for(i = 1; i <= Side; i++)
    {
    	for(j = 1; j <= Side; j++)
    	{
    	  if(i == 1 || i == Side || j == 1 || j == Side)
    	  {
    	     printf("%c", Ch);
	  }
	  else
	  {
	     printf(" ");
	  }         
        }
        printf("\n");
    }
    return 0;
}

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