QCJ1 - Mountain Walking
In this problem your task is to program a robot that will output some data about a terrain after traversing it. Input will be in the form a 2D picture containing only 4 types of characters:
- '/' : Forward slash, indicating ascent.
- '\' : Backward slash, indicating descent.
- '_' : Underscore, denoting horizontal plane.
Additionally there will be only SPACE (Ascii value = 32) characters. (Refer to the below figure).
The robot starts its journey at bottom left corner of the terrain and after traversing stops at the bottom right corner. Also note that the robot will always start and end at the SAME LEVEL.
Given the picture as input you will have to output 2 things. The "Total Walk Distance" i.e, the total length of the path and the type of steps taken to complete the Journey. For the sake of simplification we will assume that each character ('/' , '\' and '_') has length = 1.
Now Consider the following example:
_ / \/\ / \ / \
The robot starts at the bottom left corner and takes the following path:
- Ascends 3 steps
- Moves forward by 1 step
- Descends 1 step
- Ascends 1 step
- Descends 3 steps
and robot ends it journey at bottom right corner (At the same level). The Total Walk Distance = 9.
Input
First line of input will be an integer N (N < 20). The next line will be an empty. Then exactly N lines follow describing the terrain.
You can assume the following for the input (terrain).
- Input will contain only four types of characters (" ", "_", "/", "\").
- The terrain will start and end at the same level.
- Each line is guaranteed to have at least one non white space character.
- Maximum width of any line won't be larger than 200.
- There will be no trailing white spaces.
Output
First line of output should be the Total Walk Distance followed by the description of the terrain. Each line must be ONE of the following
- Up xx steps
- Down xx steps
- Walk xx steps
Where xx is an integer. Refer to the examples for exact specification.
Example
Input: 3 /\ / \ / \ Output: Total Walk Distance = 6 Up 3 steps Down 3 steps
Input: 2 _____ ___ / \/ \ Output: Total Walk Distance = 12 Up 1 steps Walk 5 steps Down 1 steps Up 1 steps Walk 3 steps Down 1 steps
Input: 5 _ /\__/ \ / \ / \/\_ / \ Output: Total Walk Distance = 16 Up 4 steps Down 1 steps Walk 2 steps Up 1 steps Walk 1 steps Down 3 steps Up 1 steps Down 1 steps Walk 1 steps Down 1 steps
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numerix:
2010-02-04 15:18:45
@scrooge: Read the description! |
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vimal raj sharma old account:
2010-02-03 19:53:00
USE two while loops to handle empty line
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scrooge:
2010-02-03 12:30:26
Is this a valid test case?:
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rozuur:
2010-02-03 07:19:12
second line in the input is not necessarily a newline, it may also contain white space characters.
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abhijith reddy d:
2010-02-02 15:53:15
@ Ehor Nechiporenko : NO |
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[Rampage] Blue.Mary:
2010-02-02 12:47:39
Er, I think if you omit all the assumptions except the one about the length of the line, you'll get Accepted quicker.
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Ehor Nechiporenko:
2010-02-02 10:50:44
Could picture has level less then level of start point? |
Added by: | abhijith reddy d |
Date: | 2010-02-01 |
Time limit: | 1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: NODEJS OBJC PERL6 SQLITE VB.NET |
Resource: | Own |