Problem of the Day
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Today's goal is to write a function that takes in a list of strings and prints them, one per line, in a rectangular frame. For example the list ["Hello", "World", "in", "a", "frame"] gets printed as:

*********
* Hello *
* World *
* in    *
* a     *
* frame *
*********

Comments:

• Ben - 10 years, 2 months ago

  C#

  using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Linq;
  
  class Program
  {
      static void Main()
      {
          List<String> strings = new List<string>{"Hello", "World", "in", "a", "frame"};
          OutputInFrame(strings);
          Console.Read();
      }
  
      public static void OutputInFrame(List<String> strings)
      {
          int maxLength = strings.Max(x => x.Length);
          string topAndBottom = "*".PadRight(maxLength + 2, '*');
          Console.WriteLine(topAndBottom);
          strings.ForEach(x => Console.WriteLine("*" + x.PadRight(maxLength) + "*"));
          Console.WriteLine(topAndBottom);
      }
  }
  

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• Max Burstein - 10 years, 2 months ago

  Thanks for the submission!

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• Anonymous - 10 years, 2 months ago

  Python

  framethis = input('Type a string >')
  box = ''
  words = []
  
  #Takes input and makes a list of the individual words
  for x in framethis:
      if x == ' ':
          words.append(box)
          box = ''
      else:
          box += x
  words.append(box)
  
  #Finds length of longest word in input
  longest = 0
  for x in words:
      if len(x) > longest:
          longest = len(x)
  
  #Creates top of frame
  firstline = ''
  for x in range(longest + 5):
      firstline += '*'
  
  #Prints input within a frame
  print(firstline)
  for x in words:
      space = longest - len(x)
      print('*',x,' ' * space, '*')
  print(firstline)
  

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