Given a m by n grid of letters, (
), and a list
of words, find the location in the grid at which the word can be found.
A word matches a straight, uninterrupted line of letters in the grid.
A word can match the letters in the grid regardless of case (i.e. upper
and lower case letters are to be treated as the same). The matching
can be done in any of the eight directions either horizontally, vertically
or diagonally through the grid.
The input begins with a pair of integers, m followed by n,
in decimal notation on a single line. The next m lines
contain n letters each; this is the grid of letters in which the
words of the list must be found. The letters in the grid may be in
upper or lower case. Following the grid of letters, another integer
k appears on a line by itself (
). The next k
lines of input contain the list of words to search for, one word per
line. These words may contain upper and lower case letters only (no
spaces, hyphens or other non-alphabetic characters).
For each word in the word list, a pair of integers representing the
location of the corresponding word in the grid must be output. The
integers must be separated by a single space. The first integer is the
line in the grid where the first letter of the given word can be found
(1 represents the topmost line in the grid, and m represents the
bottommost line). The second integer is the column in the grid where
the first letter of the given word can be found (1 represents the
leftmost column in the grid, and n represents the rightmost column in
the grid). If a word can be found more than once in the grid, then the
location which is output should correspond to the uppermost occurence
of the word (i.e. the occurence which places the first letter of the
word closest to the top of the grid). If two or more words are
uppermost, the output should correspond to the leftmost of these
occurences. All words can be found at least once in the grid.
8 11
abcDEFGhigg
hEbkWalDork
FtyAwaldORm
FtsimrLqsrc
byoArBeDeyv
Klcbqwikomk
strEBGadhrb
yUiqlxcnBjf
4
Waldorf
Bambi
Betty
Dagbert
2 5
2 3
1 2
7 8
Miguel Revilla
2000-08-22