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Battleships in a Board in C++
Suppose we have an 2D board, we have to count how many battleships are in it. The battleships are represented with the symbol 'X', empty slots are represented with '.'s. We can assume these rules −
You receive a valid board, made of only battleships or empty slots.
Battleships can only be placed horizontally or vertically. In other words, they can only be made of the shape 1xN (1 row, N columns) or Nx1 (N rows, 1 column), where N can be of any size.
At least one horizontal or vertical cell separates between two battleships - there are no adjacent battleships.
So if the board is like:
| X | . | . | X |
| . | . | . | X |
| . | . | . | X |
Then the output will be 2, as there are two battleships.
To solve this, we will follow these steps −
ans := 0, n := row count and m := column count
for ith row
for jth column
if board[i, j] is dot, then go for the next iteration
if i > 0 and board[i – 1, j] = ‘X’, then go for the next iteration
if j > 0 and board[i, j - 1] = ‘X’, then go for the next iteration
increase ans by 1
return ans
Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding −
Example
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
class Solution {
public:
int countBattleships(vector<vector<char>>& board) {
int ans = 0;
int n = board.size();
int m = board[0].size();
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){
for(int j = 0; j < m; j++){
if(board[i][j] == '.')continue;
if(i > 0 && board[i - 1][j] == 'X')continue;
if(j > 0 && board[i][j - 1] == 'X')continue;
ans++;
}
}
return ans;
}
};
main(){
vector<vector<char>> v = {{'X','.','.','X'},{'.','.','.','X'},{'.','.','.','X'}};
Solution ob;
cout << (ob.countBattleships(v));
}Input
[["X",".",".","X"],[".",".",".","X"],[".",".",".","X"]]
Output
2
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