Checkers board

I'm looking to make a checkers board..
A typical square of checkers board looks like

PHP Code:

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+-----+
|     |
|     |
|     |
+-----+ 


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my point it is, how do I print the board with rows and columns taken as input.. where should I start and how do I proceed

How about a loop which prints "+-----" a number of times.
And a loop which prints "| " a number of times.

Then loops calling those loops.

I even thought about it but the problem comes when I want something like this...

PHP Code:

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+-----+-----+
|     |     |
|     |     |
|     |     |
+-----+-----+ 


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as printf() takes \n by default... so, how would I handle this.

I would suggest you spend the next day thinking about how this works then.

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

void foo ( void ) {
  for ( int i = 0 ; i < 8 ; i++ ) printf("+----");
  printf("+\n");
  for ( int i = 0 ; i < 3 ; i++ ) {
    for ( int j = 0 ; j < 8 ; j++ ) printf("|    ");
    printf("|\n");
  }
}

int main()
{
  for ( int i = 0 ; i < 8 ; i++ ) foo();
  return 0;
}

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