Designer Door Mat HackerRank Solution In Python

Problem

Mr. Vincent works in a door mat manufacturing company. One day, he designed a new door mat with the following specifications:

• Mat size must be NXM. (N is an odd natural number, and m is 3 times N.)
• The design should have ‘WELCOME’ written in the center.
• The design pattern should only use |, . and - characters.

Sample Designs

Size: 7 x 21     ---------.|.---------    ------.|..|..|.------    ---.|..|..|..|..|.---    -------WELCOME-------    ---.|..|..|..|..|.---    ------.|..|..|.------    ---------.|.---------        Size: 11 x 33    ---------------.|.---------------    ------------.|..|..|.------------    ---------.|..|..|..|..|.---------    ------.|..|..|..|..|..|..|.------    ---.|..|..|..|..|..|..|..|..|.---    -------------WELCOME-------------    ---.|..|..|..|..|..|..|..|..|.---    ------.|..|..|..|..|..|..|.------    ---------.|..|..|..|..|.---------    ------------.|..|..|.------------    ---------------.|.---------------

Input Format

A single line containing the space separated values of N and M.

Constraints

• 5 < N < 101
• 15 < M < 303

Output Format

Output the design pattern.

Sample Input

9 27

Sample Output

------------.|.---------------------.|..|..|.---------------.|..|..|..|..|.---------.|..|..|..|..|..|..|.-------------WELCOME-------------.|..|..|..|..|..|..|.---------.|..|..|..|..|.---------------.|..|..|.---------------------.|.------------

Solution to HackerRank Designer Door Mat In Python

row, col = list(map(int, input().split()))for i in range(1, (row//2)+1):    print(((".|."*i)+(".|."*(i-1))).center(col, '-'))print("WELCOME".center(col, '-'))for i in reversed(range(1, (row//2)+1)):    print(((".|."*i)+(".|."*(i-1))).center(col, '-'))

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