200. Number of Islands

Given a 2d grid map of '1's (land) and '0's (water), count the number of islands. An island is surrounded by water and is formed by connecting adjacent lands horizontally or vertically. You may assume all four edges of the grid are all surrounded by water.

Example 1:

11110
11010
11000
00000

Answer: 1

Example 2:

11000
11000
00100
00011

Answer: 3

Credits:
Special thanks to @mithmatt for adding this problem and creating all test cases.

思路是遍历grid，检测到‘1’之后，发散开寻找，把周围的‘1’全变成‘0’，count+1，再继续遍历。代码如下：

public class Solution {
    public int numIslands(char[][] grid) {
        int m = grid.length;
        if (m == 0) {
            return 0;
        }
        int n = grid[0].length;
        int count = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < m; i ++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < n; j ++) {
                if (grid[i][j] == '1') {
                    findIsland(grid, i, j, m, n);
                    count ++;
                }
            }
        }
        return count;
    }
    
    private void findIsland(char[][] grid, int i, int j, int m, int n) {
        if (i < 0 || j < 0 || i >= m || j >= n || grid[i][j] != '1') {
            return;
        }
        grid[i][j] = 0;
        findIsland(grid, i + 1, j, m, n);
        findIsland(grid, i - 1, j, m, n);
        findIsland(grid, i, j + 1, m, n);
        findIsland(grid, i, j - 1, m, n);
    }
}