# Halo

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## Problem

This is an interactive problem.

There is a robot in a hidden grid, and you are trying to get it from its starting cell to the target cell in this grid. The grid is of size m x n, and each cell in the grid is either empty or blocked. It is guaranteed that the starting cell and the target cell are different, and neither of them is blocked.

You want to find the minimum distance to the target cell. However, you do not know the grid’s dimensions, the starting cell, nor the target cell. You are only allowed to ask queries to the GridMaster object.

The GridMaster class has the following functions:

• boolean canMove(char direction) Returns true if the robot can move in that direction. Otherwise, it returns false.
• void move(char direction) Moves the robot in that direction. If this move would move the robot to a blocked cell or off the grid, the move will be ignored, and the robot will remain in the same position.
• boolean isTarget() Returns true if the robot is currently on the target cell. Otherwise, it returns false.

Note that direction in the above functions should be a character from {'U','D','L','R'}, representing the directions up, down, left, and right, respectively.

Return the minimum distance between the robot’s initial starting cell and the target cell. If there is no valid path between the cells, return -1.

Custom testing:

The test input is read as a 2D matrix grid of size m x n where:

• grid[i][j] == -1 indicates that the robot is in cell (i, j) (the starting cell).
• grid[i][j] == 0 indicates that the cell (i, j) is blocked.
• grid[i][j] == 1 indicates that the cell (i, j) is empty.
• grid[i][j] == 2 indicates that the cell (i, j) is the target cell.

There is exactly one -1 and 2 in grid. Remember that you will not have this information in your code.

Example 1:

Example 2:

Example 3:

Constraints:

• 1 <= n, m <= 500
• m == grid.length
• n == grid[i].length
• grid[i][j] is either -1, 0, 1, or 2.
• There is exactly one -1 in grid.
• There is exactly one 2 in grid.

## Analysis

和上面那题一样，这题也是有关hidden grid二题目。总体思路再提一遍：

1. 先用DFS把hidden grid构建出来，存储的方法有两种，unordered_map或者二维矩阵；
2. 转化为基本的图问题后，再利用BFS或者dijkstra等基本的图算法求解题目。

我们还是先看第二步，题目要求找最短路径，毫无疑问就是BFS了。然后我们来看第一步怎么做，上一道题目我用了unordered_map的方法存储grid，这道题目我就换一种方法，用二维矩阵来存储。这里我们假设起点是(501, 501)，那么总长度就应该是1001，这样才能保证不会越界。其他的就是基本的DFS把每个位置能否移动标记出来即可。

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## Summary

连续两道有关hidden grid的题目，相信大家已经能把这种类型的题目弄清楚了。其本质还是先DFS构造出图，进而把题目转变成正常的图类型的题目来处理。这道题目的分享到这里，感谢你的支持！

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