Canadian Computing Competition: 2008 Stage 2, Day 2, Problem 1
Oh no! A number of stray cats have been let loose in the city, and as the City Cat Catcher, you have been assigned the vital task of retrieving all of the cats. This is an ideal opportunity to test your latest invention, a cat trap which is guaranteed to retrieve every cat which walks into a square-shaped subsection of the city. Fortunately, you have the assistance of one of the world's foremost cat psychologists, who has the amazing ability of predicting, given a square subsection of the city, exactly which of the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, or west) the cat will head. While this information is handy, you still don't know where all the cats currently are. In order to prove the cost-effectiveness of your method to the City it would, of course, be important to minimize the number of traps used.
Input Specification
The input will begin with a line consisting of two numbers and , separated by a
space . The city will be an grid of square subsections. The next
lines will each consist of a string of length , consisting of the letters N
, E
, S
, or W
,
representing north, east, south, and west, respectively. (The first character of the first line
will be the northwesternmost point.) The direction in the square is the direction which cats
will head if they are in that square. The cat psychologist assures you that cats have no
interest in leaving the city.
Output Specification
Output the minimum number of traps needed.
Sample Input
3 4
SWWW
SEWN
EEEN
Sample Output
2
Grading
You may assume that of test cases will have . All test cases will have .
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