Re: Finding blocks of symbols on a 2dimensional array

On 2006-01-09, efialtis <efialtis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> x x o o x
> x o o o o
> o o x x o
> o o o x x
> x x o o o
>
> I want to write a function which calculates the number of ball blocks
> on a specific board. For example the above board has 4 ball blocks
> (1 or more balls being surrounded by empty spaces).

Are these considered as having two blocks or one block:

ox
xo

and

ooxo
ooox
oooo
oooo
?

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Ioan - Ciprian Tandau
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(... and that it still works...)
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