Drawing something simple with MATLAB

I need to write a code to produce the following pattern:

X...X
.X.X.
..X..
.X.X.
X...X

can anyone please help me with the code?

[Enis]

Actually, it has to be like this for any value of R specified, diagonals are X-es, the rest is dots. I got in a really simple way.

Answer 1

[Ajay Kumar]

 disp(' ')
disp('X...X')
disp('.X.X.')
disp('..X..')
disp('.X.X.')
disp('X...X')
disp(' ')

Answer 2

[Ajay Kumar]

Try the above. It should work. This is the simplest if you are just trying to display characters

Answer 3

[Walter Roberson]

Hint to get you started:

flipud(diag('XXXXX'))