Hollow Concentric Hexagon with Alphabets

This program prints a hollow concentric hexagon using alphabets.

Problem Statement

Write a Java program that prints a hollow concentric hexagon with alphabets up to 7 rows.

Source Code

1 public class HollowConcentricHexagonAlphabets {
2 public static void main(String[] args) {
3 int n = 7;
4 for(int i=1; i<=n; i++) {
5 for(int j=i; j<n; j++) System.out.print(" ");
6 for(int j=1; j<=n; j++) {
7 if(i==1 || i==n || j==1 || j==n || i==n/2+1)
8 System.out.print((char)('A'+i-1) + " ");
9 else System.out.print(" ");
10 }
11 System.out.println();
12 }
13 }
14 }

Program Output

      A A A A A A A 
     B           B 
    C           C 
   D D D D D D D 
  E           E 
 F           F 
G G G G G G G 

Explanation

The hollow hexagon boundary and middle-row logic is reused, but the printed symbol is now an alphabet derived from the row index rather than a fixed star, labeling each boundary row with its own letter.

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