You can write mutation-style java tersely too... void alignCenter(String[] text) { int maxLength = 0; for (String line : text) maxLength

You can write mutation-style java tersely too... void alignCenter(String[] text) { int maxLength = 0; for (String line : text) maxLength = Math.max(maxLength, line.length()); for (int i = 0; i < text.length; ++i) { text[i] = " ".repeat((maxLength - text[i].length()) / 2) + text[i]; } } No lambdas to be found.