Valid Sudoku

My first implementation:


class Solution {
public:
    bool isValidSudoku(vector<vector<char> > &board) {
        set<char> rowHash;
        for (int r=0; r<9; r++) {
            rowHash.clear();
            for (int c=0; c<9; c++) {
                char cur = board[r][c];
                if (cur != '.') {
                    pair<set<char>::iterator, bool> ret = rowHash.insert(cur);
                    if (!ret.second) {
                        return false;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
     
        set<char> columnHash;   
        for (int c=0; c<9; c++) {
            columnHash.clear();
            for (int r=0; r<9; r++) {
                char cur = board[r][c];
                if (cur != '.') {
                    pair<set<char>::iterator, bool> ret = columnHash.insert(cur);
                    if (!ret.second) {
                        return false;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        
        set<char> subboxHash;
        for (int box = 0; box<9; box++) {
            int rowStart = (box/3)*3;
            int columnStart = (box%3)*3;
            subboxHash.clear();
            for (int r = rowStart; r<rowStart+3; r++) {
                for (int c = columnStart; c<columnStart+3; c++) {
                    char cur = board[r][c];
                    if (cur != '.') {
                        pair<set<char>::iterator, bool> ret = subboxHash.insert(cur);
                        if (!ret.second) {
                            return false;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        
        return true;
    }
};

my 2nd implementation

class Solution {
public:
    bool isValidSudoku(vector<vector<char> > &board) {
        vector<bool> rowHash, columnHash;
        
        // don't really need differentiate rows againt with columns
        // but through the order of the reference
        for (int i=0; i<9; i++) {
            rowHash.assign(9, false);
            columnHash.assign(9, false);
            for (int j=0; j<9; j++) {
                if (board[i][j] != '.') {
                    // Ascii value of '1' is 49, 'A' is 65, 'a' is 96
                    if (rowHash[board[i][j]-49]) {
                        return false;
                    }
                    rowHash[board[i][j]-49] = true;
                }
                
                if (board[j][i] != '.') {
                    if (columnHash[board[j][i]-49]) {
                        return false;
                    } 
                    columnHash[board[j][i]-49] = true;
                }
            }
        }
     
     for (int i=0; i<9; i+=3) { //start of rows for each subbox
        for (int j=0; j<9; j+=3) { //start of columns for each subbox
            rowHash.assign(9, false);
            for (int m=0; m<3; m++) { // row residual of each subbox
                for (int n=0; n<3; n++) { // column residual of each subbox
                    if (board[i+m][j+n] != '.') {
                        if (rowHash[board[i+m][j+n]-49]) {
                            return false;
                        }
                        rowHash[board[i+m][j+n]-49] = true;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
     }
     
     return true;
    }
};


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