Codeforces 3A Shortest path of the king
The king is left alone on the chessboard. In spite of this loneliness, he doesn't lose heart, because he has business of national importance. For example, he has to pay an official visit to square t. As the king is not in habit of wasting his time, he wants to get from his current position s to square t in the least number of moves. Help him to do this.
In one move the king can get to the square that has a common side or a common vertex with the square the king is currently in (generally there are 8 different squares he can move to).
Input
The first line contains the chessboard coordinates of square s, the second line — of square t.
Chessboard coordinates consist of two characters, the first one is a lowercase Latin letter (from a to h), the second one is a digit from 1 to 8.
Output
In the first line print n — minimum number of the king's moves. Then in n lines print the moves themselves. Each move is described with one of the 8: L, R, U, D, LU, LD, RU or RD.
L, R, U, D stand respectively for moves left, right, up and down (according to the picture), and 2-letter combinations stand for diagonal moves. If the answer is not unique, print any of them.
Sample Input
Input
a8
h1
Output
7
RD
RD
RD
RD
RD
RD
RD
Source
Codeforces Beta Round #3
題意:國際象棋的王從一個點到另外一個點的最短路徑的每一步的方向,原來剛開始想到的是BFS,但是一想有點複雜,一步小心又看到了q神的程式碼,ORZ,竟然可以這麼寫,遂參考了他的程式碼.
AC程式碼:
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
char s1[5],s2[5];
while(cin>>s1>>s2)
{
int x=s2[0]-s1[0];//LR
int y=s2[1]-s1[1];//UD
cout<<max(abs(x),abs(y))<<endl;
while(x||y)
{
if(x>0)
x--,cout<<"R";
if(x<0)
x++,cout<<"L";
if(y>0)
y--,cout<<"U";
if(y<0)
y++,cout<<"D";
cout<<endl;
}
}
return 0;
}