LeetCode: 36. Valid Sudoku

Problem: 36. Valid Sudoku

Link: https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-sudoku/

Difficulty: Medium

Description:

Determine if a 9×9 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 3×3 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 3×3 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 9×9.

Solution: 

Language: Swift

Runtime: 208ms
Memory: 19.4MB