How to dynamically allocate, populate certain spots, and print a 2D array in C?

Question

I have a project to do for class, where the professor wants us to populate a 2d array and print it so it looks like this.

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The array is supposed to be 8x8 then 8 equal signs on the top and bottom. Please help.

Answer 1

First use printf() to make the 8 equal signs.

Then depending on how the array is filled, fill it and then use a nested for loop to print each row sequentially of a 2D array arr[x][y]; If there is a 0 or -1 (however you want to tell the program that that slot is empty) print a space.

Then Repeat the first step of printing the 8 equal signs.