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    Question Drawing a square with stars and dots

    Hi , I have an assignment, the task is too draw a 'square' whose outline is all *'s and whose
    interior is filled with the character . (dot). The input to the program is the size of the 'square'
    in characters.

    Input size of square: 5


    Expected output


    *****
    *. . .*
    *. . .*
    *. . .*
    *****

    I am very new to Java and completely lost on this task, please please HELP! :-) Thanks


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