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# 36. Valid Sudoku

Medium

## Description

Determine if a 9x9 Sudoku board is valid. Only the filled cells need to be validated according to the following rules:

1. Each row must contain the digits 1-9 without repetition.
2. Each column must contain the digits 1-9 without repetition.
3. Each of the 9 3x3 sub-boxes of the grid must contain the digits 1-9 without repetition.

A partially filled sudoku which is valid.

The Sudoku board could be partially filled, where empty cells are filled with the character '.'.

Example 1:

Input:
[
["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:
[
["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.


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.
• The given board contain only digits 1-9 and the character '.'.
• The given board size is always 9x9.

# Algorithm

The criterion is to see whether there are repeated numbers in each row and column, and whether there are repeated numbers in each small 3x3 square matrix. If there are no repeats, the current matrix is a Sudoku matrix, but it does not mean that the Sudoku matrix to be solved has a solution, it simply judges whether the currently unfilled matrix is a Sudoku matrix.

Then according to the definition of the Sudoku matrix, when traversing each number, look at the row and column containing the current position and whether the number has appeared in the 3x3 small square matrix.

Here we need three boolean matrices with the same size as the original array Same, record each row, each column, each small square matrix whether there is a certain number, the row and column mark subscripts correspond well, that is, the subscripts of the small square matrix need to be slightly changed

subsquare indexing i - i%3 + j/3 or j - j%3 + i/3

Java