In this problem, we are given a grid of characters and want to expand it by a factor of K in both the horizontal and vertical dimensions.
It's worth noting to begin with that the first K rows that we print can be generated from the first row of the grid, the next K rows will be generated from the second row, and so on. Therefore, we focus our attention only on expanding a single row.
Note that expanding a single row will generate K copies of the same row, so we only need to figure out how to generate a copy of a row that is stretched horizontally by a factor of K.
We can do this though just by printing each character K times.
Here is my Java code.
import java.io.*; import java.util.*; public class cowsignal { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { // initialize file I/O BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("cowsignal.in")); PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("cowsignal.out"))); StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(br.readLine()); int r = Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken()); int c = Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken()); int k = Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken()); for(int i = 0; i < r; i++) { // get the next row to generate k copies of String currRow = br.readLine(); // we will generate the same row K times for(int internalRow = 0; internalRow < k; internalRow++) { // loop over each character... for(int j = 0; j < c; j++) { // and print it k times for(int a = 0; a < k; a++) { pw.print(currRow.charAt(j)); } } // we need to print a new line to indicate that we need to go to the next row pw.println(); } } pw.close(); } }