Lake Counting
Description
Due to recent rains, water has pooled in various places in Farmer John’s field, which is represented by a rectangle of N x M (1 <= N <= 100; 1 <= M <= 100) squares. Each square contains either water (‘W’) or dry land (‘.’). Farmer John would like to figure out how many ponds have formed in his field. A pond is a connected set of squares with water in them, where a square is considered adjacent to all eight of its neighbors.
Given a diagram of Farmer John’s field, determine how many ponds he has.
Input
Line 1: Two space-separated integers: N and M
Lines 2..N+1: M characters per line representing one row of Farmer John’s field. Each character is either ‘W’ or ‘.’. The characters do not have spaces between them.
Output
- Line 1: The number of ponds in Farmer John’s field.
Sample Input
10 12
W……..WW.
.WWW…..WWW
….WW…WW.
………WW.
………W..
..W……W..
.W.W…..WW.
W.W.W…..W.
.W.W……W.
..W…….W.
Sample Output
3
Hint
OUTPUT DETAILS:
There are three ponds: one in the upper left, one in the lower left,and one along the right side.
Source
USACO 2004 November
Code
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
int N = sc.nextInt();
int M = sc.nextInt();
char[][] field= new char[N][M];
for(int i=0;i<N;i++){
String temp = sc.next();
field[i] = temp.toCharArray();
}
int count = 0;
for(int i=0;i<N;i++)
for(int j=0;j<M;j++)
if(field[i][j] == 'W'){
dfs(i,j,field,N,M);
count++;
}
System.out.println(count);
}
private static void dfs(int x, int y, char[][] field,int N,int M) {
field[x][y] = '.';
for(int i=-1;i<=1;i++)
for(int j=-1;j<=1;j++){
int dx = x+i;
int dy = y+j;
if(dx>=0&&dx<N&&dy>=0&&dy<M&&field[dx][dy] == 'W')
dfs(dx, dy, field,N,M);
}
}
}