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130. Surrounded Regions

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Problem

Given a 2D board containing ‘X’ and ‘O’ (the letter O), capture all regions surrounded by ‘X’.

A region is captured by flipping all ‘O’s into ‘X’s in that surrounded region.

example 1

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X X X X
X O O X
X X O X
X O X X

After running your function, the board should be:

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X X X X
X X X X
X X X X
X O X X

Solution

DFS

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func solve(board [][]byte) {
	a := make([][]int, len(board))
	for idx := range board {
		a[idx] = make([]int, len(board[idx]))
	}

	for idx := range board {
		if idx == 0 || idx == len(board)-1 {
			for jdx := range board[idx] {
				if board[idx][jdx] == 'O' && a[idx][jdx] == 0 {
					visit(board, a, idx, jdx)
				}
			}
		} else {
			jdx := 0
			if board[idx][jdx] == 'O' && a[idx][jdx] == 0 {
				visit(board, a, idx, jdx)
			}
			jdx = len(board[idx]) - 1
			if board[idx][jdx] == 'O' && a[idx][jdx] == 0 {
				visit(board, a, idx, jdx)
			}

		}

	}

	for idx := range board {
		for jdx := range board[idx] {
			if a[idx][jdx] != 1 {
				board[idx][jdx] = 'X'
			}
		}
	}

}

func visit(board [][]byte, a [][]int, i, j int) {
	a[i][j] = 1

	if j+1 < len(board[i]) && board[i][j+1] == 'O' && a[i][j+1] == 0 {
		visit(board, a, i, j+1)
	}
	if j-1 >= 0 && board[i][j-1] == 'O' && a[i][j-1] == 0 {
		visit(board, a, i, j-1)
	}

	if i+1 < len(board) && board[i+1][j] == 'O' && a[i+1][j] == 0 {
		visit(board, a, i+1, j)
	}
	if i-1 >= 0 && board[i-1][j] == 'O' && a[i-1][j] == 0 {
		visit(board, a, i-1, j)
	}
}