Spiral Matrix

Given the size, return a square matrix of numbers in spiral order.

The matrix should be filled with natural numbers, starting from 1 in the top-left corner, increasing in an inward, clockwise spiral order, like these examples:

Spiral matrix of size 3

1 2 3
8 9 4
7 6 5

Spiral matrix of size 4

Source

Reddit r/dailyprogrammer challenge #320 [Easy] Spiral Ascension. https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/6i60lr/20170619_challenge_320_easy_spiral_ascension/

Version compatibility

This exercise has been tested on Julia versions >=1.0.

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

Your solution



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# submit
function spiral_matrix(n::Int)

end

Test suite



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using Test

# include("spiral-matrix.jl")


@testset "Different valid values" begin
    @testset "Empty spiral" begin
        @test spiral_matrix(0) == Matrix{Int}(undef,0,0)
    end
    @testset "Trivial spiral" begin
        @test spiral_matrix(1) == reshape([1],(1,1))
    end
    @testset "Spiral of size 2" begin
        @test spiral_matrix(2) == [1 2; 4 3]
    end
    @testset "Spiral of size 3" begin
        @test spiral_matrix(3) == [1 2 3; 8 9 4; 7 6 5]
    end
    @testset "Spiral of size 4" begin
        @test spiral_matrix(4) == [1 2 3 4; 12 13 14 5; 11 16 15 6; 10 9 8 7]
    end
    @testset "Spiral of size 5" begin
        @test spiral_matrix(5) == [1 2 3 4 5; 16 17 18 19 6; 15 24 25 20 7; 14 23 22 21 8; 13 12 11 10 9]
    end
end

Prepare submission

To submit your exercise, you need to save your solution in a file called spiral-matrix.jl before using the CLI. You can either create it manually or use the following functions, which will automatically write every notebook cell that starts with # submit to the file spiral-matrix.jl.



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# using Pkg; Pkg.add("Exercism")
# using Exercism
# Exercism.create_submission("spiral-matrix")