This week's code snippet, Baklava in Lucee, is brought to you by Subete and the Sample Programs repo.
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for (n = -10; n <= 10; n++) {
numSpaces = abs(n);
numStars = 21 - 2 * numSpaces;
spaces = repeatString(" ", numSpaces);
stars = repeatString("*", numStars);
writeOutput(spaces & stars & "<br>");
}
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