#K10426. Maze Path Finder
Maze Path Finder
Maze Path Finder
You are given a maze represented as a grid with n rows and m columns. Each cell in the grid can be one of the following characters:
S
denotes the starting point.E
denotes the ending point..
denotes a free cell.#
denotes an obstacle.
Your task is to determine whether there exists a valid path from the starting cell S
to the ending cell E
by moving in the four cardinal directions (up, down, left, right) without passing through obstacles. The answer should be YES
if such a path exists and NO
otherwise.
Hint: A Breadth-First Search (BFS) algorithm can be used to solve this problem effectively.
inputFormat
The first line contains two integers n
and m
separated by a space, representing the number of rows and columns of the maze respectively.
The following n
lines each contain a string of length m
representing the maze row. Each character in the string is one of S
, E
, .
, or #
.
outputFormat
Output a single line containing YES
if there exists a path from S
to E
in the maze, or NO
otherwise.
5 5
S..#.
.#..#
.#..#
..###
...E.
YES
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