/*  Decorations.c  (c) Kari Laitinen

    http://www.naturalprogramming.com/

    2013-11-26 File created.
    2013-11-26 Last modification.
*/

#include  <stdio.h>

void  multiprint_character( char character_from_caller,
                            int  number_of_times_to_repeat )
{
   int  repetition_counter  =  0 ;

   while ( repetition_counter  <  number_of_times_to_repeat )
   {
      printf( "%c", character_from_caller ) ;
      repetition_counter  ++ ;
   }
}

void  print_text_in_decorated_box( char text_from_caller[] )
{
   int text_length  =  strlen( text_from_caller ) ;

   printf( "\n " ) ;
   multiprint_character( '=',  text_length  +  8  ) ;
   printf( "\n " ) ;
   multiprint_character( '*',  text_length  +  8  ) ;
   printf( "\n **" ) ;
   multiprint_character( ' ',  text_length  +  4  ) ;

   printf( "**\n **  %s  **\n **", text_from_caller ) ;

   multiprint_character( ' ',  text_length  +  4  ) ;
   printf( "**\n " ) ;
   multiprint_character( '*',  text_length  +  8  ) ;
   printf( "\n " ) ;
   multiprint_character( '=',  text_length  +  8  ) ;
   printf( "\n " ) ;
}

int main()
{
   char  first_text[]  =  "Hello, world." ;

   print_text_in_decorated_box( first_text ) ;

   print_text_in_decorated_box(

           "I am a computer program written in C.") ;
}

/* This program produces the following output:


=====================
*********************
**                 **
**  Hello, world.  **
**                 **
*********************
=====================

=============================================
*********************************************
**                                         **
**  I am a computer program written in C.  **
**                                         **
*********************************************
=============================================

*/