Algorithm


Problem Name: 864. Shortest Path to Get All Keys

You are given an m x n grid grid where:

  • '.' is an empty cell.
  • '#' is a wall.
  • '@' is the starting point.
  • Lowercase letters represent keys.
  • Uppercase letters represent locks.

You start at the starting point and one move consists of walking one space in one of the four cardinal directions. You cannot walk outside the grid, or walk into a wall.

If you walk over a key, you can pick it up and you cannot walk over a lock unless you have its corresponding key.

For some 1 <= k <= 6, there is exactly one lowercase and one uppercase letter of the first k letters of the English alphabet in the grid. This means that there is exactly one key for each lock, and one lock for each key; and also that the letters used to represent the keys and locks were chosen in the same order as the English alphabet.

Return the lowest number of moves to acquire all keys. If it is impossible, return -1.

 

Example 1:

Input: grid = ["@.a..","###.#","b.A.B"]
Output: 8
Explanation: Note that the goal is to obtain all the keys not to open all the locks.

Example 2:

Input: grid = ["@..aA","..B#.","....b"]
Output: 6

Example 3:

Input: grid = ["@Aa"]
Output: -1

 

Constraints:

  • m == grid.length
  • n == grid[i].length
  • 1 <= m, n <= 30
  • grid[i][j] is either an English letter, '.', '#', or '@'.
  • The number of keys in the grid is in the range [1, 6].
  • Each key in the grid is unique.
  • Each key in the grid has a matching lock.
 

Code Examples

#1 Code Example with Javascript Programming

Code - Javascript Programming


const shortestPathAllKeys = function(grid) {
  let r = grid.length,
    c = grid[0].length
  let moves = [[-1, 0], [1, 0], [0, 1], [0, -1]]
  let finalState = 0,
    startPoint = null
  for (let i = 0; i  <  r; i++) {
    for (let j = 0; j  <  c; j++) {
      let code = grid[i].charCodeAt(j) - 97
      if (code >= 0 && code <= 5) {
        finalState = finalState | (1 << code)
      } else if (grid[i][j] === '@') {
        startPoint = [i, j]
      }
    }
  }
  let visited = Array(finalState + 1)
    .fill()
    .map(() =>
      Array(r)
        .fill()
        .map(() => Array(c).fill(false))
    )
  let step = 0
  let arr = [[startPoint[0], startPoint[1], 0]]
  while (arr.length > 0) {
    let len = arr.length
    for (let i = 0; i  <  len; i++) {
      let [x, y, keysState] = arr.shift()
      for (let [dx, dy] of moves) {
        let newx = x + dx,
          newy = y + dy
        if (newx < 0 || newy < 0 || newx >= r || newy >= c) continue
        let curstr = grid[newx][newy]
        if (curstr === '#') continue
        let code = grid[newx].charCodeAt(newy)
        if (visited[keysState][newx][newy]) continue
        visited[keysState][newx][newy] = true
        if (code >= 65 && code <= 72 && ((1 << (code - 65)) & keysState) === 0)
          continue
        let newState = keysState
        if (
          code >= 97 &&
          code  < = 102 &&
          ((1 << (code - 97)) & keysState) === 0
        ) {
          newState = newState | (1 << (code - 97))
          if (newState === finalState) return step + 1
        }
        arr.push([newx, newy, newState])
      }
    }
    step++
  }
  return -1
}
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#2 Code Example with Python Programming

Code - Python Programming


class Solution:
    def shortestPathAllKeys(self, grid):
        final, m, n, si, sj = 0, len(grid), len(grid[0]), 0, 0
        for i in range(m):
            for j in range(n):
                if grid[i][j] in "abcdef":
                    final |= 1 << ord(grid[i][j]) - ord("a")
                elif grid[i][j] == "@":
                    si, sj = i, j
        q, memo = [(0, si, sj, 0)], set()
        while q:
            moves, i, j, state = heapq.heappop(q)
            if state == final: return moves
            for x, y in ((i - 1, j), (i + 1, j), (i, j - 1), (i, j + 1)):
                if 0  < = x < m and 0 <= y < n and grid[x][y] != "#":
                    if grid[x][y].isupper() and not state & 1 << (ord(grid[x][y].lower()) - ord("a")): continue
                    newState = ord(grid[x][y]) >= ord("a") and state | 1 << (ord(grid[x][y]) - ord("a")) or state
                    if (newState, x, y) not in memo:
                        memo.add((newState, x, y))
                        heapq.heappush(q, (moves + 1, x, y, newState))
        return -1
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