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Andrew_Levenson has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Okay, in preparing for my competition tomorrow, i'm doing some practice problems from the previous years. One problem has me printing a diamond of '@'s in the center of the screen using only 3 print commands. I decided to take it a step further and write it using only one print, but in the midst of writing it, I seem to have not been able to get the Text::Autoformat module to work for me. Can anyone troubleshoot this?

use strict; use warnings; use Text::Autoformat; my @array=qw/@/; for my $i(1..10){ @array = autoformat (@array, { justify => 'center' }); print "@array\n"; ((push @array, '@') x 2) if scalar(@array) < 10; ((pop @array) x 2) if scalar(@array) >= 10; }

One might also make not of the fact that I am shooting in the dark when it comes to doubling a command, haha.
Thanks!