WhiteCells

SRM 367 · 2007-09-26 · by gevak

SRM 367 · 2007-09-26 · by gevak · Simple Search, Iteration

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Class Name: WhiteCells

Return Type: int

Method Name: countOccupied

Arg Types: (vector<string>)

Problem Statement

A chessboard is an 8 x 8 grid of cells. Within each column and within each row, cells alternate between black and white. The cell in the upper left corner (0, 0) is white. You are given a String[] board, where the j-th character of the i-th element is 'F' if the cell in the j-th column from the left and i-th row from the top is occupied, or '.' if it is empty. Return the number of occupied white cells on the board.

Constraints

board will contain exactly 8 elements.
Each element of board will contain exactly 8 characters.
board will contain only the characters '.' and 'F'.

Statement by TopCoder, Inc. — view the original on the archive.

Examples

{"........",
 "........",
 "........",
 "........",
 "........",
 "........",
 "........",
 "........"}
Returns: 0

{"FFFFFFFF",
 "FFFFFFFF",
 "FFFFFFFF",
 "FFFFFFFF",
 "FFFFFFFF",
 "FFFFFFFF",
 "FFFFFFFF",
 "FFFFFFFF"}
Returns: 32

{".F.F...F",
 "F...F.F.",
 "...F.F.F",
 "F.F...F.",
 ".F...F..",
 "F...F.F.",
 ".F.F.F.F",
 "..FF..F."}
Returns: 1

{"........",
 "..F.....",
 ".....F..",
 ".....F..",
 "........",
 "........",
 ".......F",
 ".F......"}
Returns: 2

{"...F....", "F.......", "..F.....", "........",
"..F.....", ".....F..", ".F......", "......F."}
Returns: 3

Submissions are judged against all 48 archived test cases, of which 5 are shown here. Case numbers match the judge’s.

Coding Area

Language: C++17 · define a public class WhiteCells with a public method int countOccupied(vector<string> board) · 48 test cases · 2 s / 256 MB per case