Canadian Computing Competition: 2012 Stage 1, Junior #3
You have been asked to take a small icon that appears on the screen of a smart telephone and scale it up so it looks bigger on a regular computer screen.
The icon will be encoded as characters (x
and *
) in a grid as follows:
*x*
xx
* *
Write a program that accepts a positive integer scaling factor and outputs the scaled icon. A scaling factor of means that each character is replaced by a
grid consisting only of that character.
Input Specification
The input will be a positive integer such that
.
Output Specification
The output will be lines, which represent each individual line scaled by a factor of
and repeated
times. A line is scaled by a factor of
by replacing each character in the line with
copies of the character.
Sample Input
3
Output for Sample Input
***xxx***
***xxx***
***xxx***
xxxxxx
xxxxxx
xxxxxx
*** ***
*** ***
*** ***
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