Program to print diamond sample utilizing numbers and stars

#embrace <iostream>

utilizing namespace std;

void sample(int N)

{

    int i, j, rely = 1;

    for (i = 1; i <= N; i++) {

        for (j = 1; j <= i; j++) {

            if (j < i)

                cout << rely++ << "*";

            else

                cout << rely++;

        }

        cout << endl;

    }

    rely = rely - N;

    for (i = N; i >= 1; i--) {

        for (j = 1; j <= i; j++) {

            if (j < i)

                cout << rely++ << "*";

            else

                cout << rely++;

        }

        rely = (rely + 1) - 2 * i;

        cout << endl;

    }

}

int foremost()

{

    int N = 4;

    sample(N);

    return 0;

}