Valid Sudoku

36. Valid Sudoku

Difficulty: Medium

Related Topics: Array, Hash Table, Matrix

Determine if a 9 x 9 Sudoku board is valid. Only the filled cells need to be validated according to the following rules:

Each row must contain the digits 1-9 without repetition. Each column must contain the digits 1-9 without repetition. Each of the nine 3 x 3 sub-boxes of the grid must contain the digits 1-9 without repetition. Note:

A Sudoku board (partially filled) could be valid but is not necessarily solvable. Only the filled cells need to be validated according to the mentioned rules.

Example 1:

Input: board = [[“5”,”3”,”.”,”.”,”7”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”.”] ,[“6”,”.”,”.”,”1”,”9”,”5”,”.”,”.”,”.”] ,[”.”,”9”,”8”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”6”,”.”] ,[“8”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”6”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”3”] ,[“4”,”.”,”.”,”8”,”.”,”3”,”.”,”.”,”1”] ,[“7”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”2”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”6”] ,[”.”,”6”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”2”,”8”,”.”] ,[”.”,”.”,”.”,”4”,”1”,”9”,”.”,”.”,”5”] ,[”.”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”8”,”.”,”.”,”7”,”9”]] Output: true Example 2:

Input: board = [[“8”,”3”,”.”,”.”,”7”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”.”] ,[“6”,”.”,”.”,”1”,”9”,”5”,”.”,”.”,”.”] ,[”.”,”9”,”8”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”6”,”.”] ,[“8”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”6”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”3”] ,[“4”,”.”,”.”,”8”,”.”,”3”,”.”,”.”,”1”] ,[“7”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”2”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”6”] ,[”.”,”6”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”2”,”8”,”.”] ,[”.”,”.”,”.”,”4”,”1”,”9”,”.”,”.”,”5”] ,[”.”,”.”,”.”,”.”,”8”,”.”,”.”,”7”,”9”]] Output: false Explanation: Same as Example 1, except with the 5 in the top left corner being modified to 8. Since there are two 8’s in the top left 3x3 sub-box, it is invalid.

Code:

class Solution:
    def isValidSudoku(self, board: List[List[str]]) -> bool:
        boardMap = collections.defaultdict(list)
        for x in range(9):
            for y in range(9):
                char = board[x][y]
                if char != '.': 
                    if char in boardMap:
                        for pos in boardMap[char]:
                            if (pos[0]== x) or (pos[1] == y) or (pos[0]//3 == x//3 and pos[1]//3 == y//3):
                                return False
                    boardMap[char].append((x,y))
   
        return True