Grokking the Coding Interview: Patterns for Coding Questions
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Solution: Sudoku Solver
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Problem Statement

Write a program to solve a Sudoku puzzle by filling the empty cells.

A sudoku solution must satisfy all of the following rules:

  • Each of the digits 1-9 must occur exactly once in each row.
  • Each of the digits 1-9 must occur exactly once in each column.
  • Each of the digits 1-9 must occur exactly once in each of the 9 3x3 sub-boxes of the grid.

The '.' character indicates empty cells.

Example 1:
Input:

            {'5', '3', '.', '.', '7', '.', '.', '.', '.'},
            {'6', '.', '.', '1', '9', '5', '.', '.', '.'},
            {'.', '9', '8', '.', '

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