419. Battleships in a Board

Given an 2D board, count how many battleships are in it. The battleships are represented with 'X's, empty slots are represented with '.'s. You may assume the following 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.

Example:

X..X
...X
...X

In the above board there are 2 battleships.

Invalid Example:

...X
XXXX
...X

This is an invalid board that you will not receive - as battleships will always have a cell separating between them.

Follow up:

Could you do it in one-pass, using only O(1) extra memory and without modifying the value of the board?

public class Solution {
    public int countBattleships(char[][] board) {
        int re = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < board.length; ++i) {
			for (int j = 0; j < board[0].length; ++j) {
				if (board[i][j] == 'X') {
					if (i > 0) {
						if (board[i - 1][j] == 'X')
							continue;
					}
					if (j > 0) {
						if (board[i][j - 1] == 'X')
							continue;
					}
					re++;
				}
			}
		}
		return re;
    }
}