UVa 414 - Machined Surfaces

Machined Surfaces

An imaging device furnishes digital images of two machined surfaces thateventually will be assembled incontact with each other. The roughness of this final contact is to be estimated.

A digital image is composed of the two characters, "X" and " "(space). There are always 25 columns to animage, but the number of rows, N, is variable. Column one (1) will alwayshave an "X" in it and will bepart of the left surface. The left surface can extend to the right fromcolumn one (1) as contiguous X's.

Similarly, column 25 will always have an "X" in it and will be partof the right surface. The right surfacecan extend to the left from column 25 as contiguous X's.

Digital-Image View of Surfaces

 
		 Left     		                           Right



		 XXXX                                              XXXXX	 

		 XXX                                             XXXXXXX

		 XXXXX                                              XXXX

		 XX                                               XXXXXX

		 .                                                     .

		 .                                                     .

		 .                                                     .

		 XXXX                                               XXXX

		 XXX                                              XXXXXX	  

		    		   		                     

		 1         					    25

In each row of the image, there can be zero or more space charactersseparating the left surface from the right surface.There will never be more than a single blank region in any row.

For each image given, you are to determine the total ``void" that willexist after the left surface has beenbrought into contact with the right surface. The ``void" is the totalcount of the spaces that remains betweenthe left and right surfaces after theyhave been brought into contact.

The two surfaces are brought into contact by displacing them strictlyhorizontally towards each other until arightmost "X" of the left surface of some row is immediately to theleft of the leftmost "X" of the right surface of that row.There is no rotation or twisting of these two surfaces as they are broughtinto contact; they remain rigid, and only move horizontally.

Note: The original image may show the two surfaces already in contact,in which case no displacement enters into the contact roughness estimation.

Input

The input consists of a series of digital images. Each image data set hasthe following format:

First line -

A single unsigned integer, N, with value greater thanzero (0) and less than 13. Thefirst digit of N will be the first character on a line.

Next N lines -

Each line has exactly 25 characters; one or more X's, then zero or more spaces, then one or more X's.

The end of data is signaled by a null data set having a zero on the firstline of an image data set and no further data.

Output

For each image you receive as a data set, you are to reply with the totalvoid (count of spaces remainingafter the surfaces are brought into contact). Use the default output fora single integer on a line.

Sample Input(character "B" for ease of reading.The actual input file will use the ASCII-space character, not "B").

4
XXXXBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBXXXXX
XXXBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBXXXXXXX
XXXXXBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBXXXX
XXBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBXXXXXX
2
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
1
XXXXXXXXXBBBBBBBBBBBBBBXX
0

Sample Output

4
0
0

题意：输入一个X和空字符（用B表示）组成的字符数组，然后把空字符用后面的X填起来，求最后有多少个空。

思路：我是用数组将这一行有多少个X记录下来，同时找出最大行的个数。最后将这个最大个数跟每一行的个数去比较，得到的差值就是最后所要求的。

AC代码：

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
	int a[100],n,i,s,max;
	char c;
	while(scanf("%d",&n)!=EOF&&n!=0)
	{
		getchar();
		max=-99999;
		s=0;
		for(i=0;i<n;i++)
		{
			a[i]=0;
           while(scanf("%c",&c)!=EOF)
		   {
			   if(c=='\n')break;
			   if(c=='X')a[i]++;
		   }
		   if(a[i]>max)max=a[i];
		}
		for(i=0;i<n;i++)
		   s+=(max-a[i]);
		printf("%d\n",s);
	}
	return 0;
}