angelikatyborska's solution to Minesweeper on the Elixir track

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Solution

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This solution was written on an old version of Exercism. The tests below might not correspond to the solution code, and the exercise may have changed since this code was written.

Add the numbers to a minesweeper board.

Minesweeper is a popular game where the user has to find the mines using numeric hints that indicate how many mines are directly adjacent (horizontally, vertically, diagonally) to a square.

In this exercise you have to create some code that counts the number of mines adjacent to a square and transforms boards like this (where * indicates a mine):

+-----+
| * * |
|  *  |
|  *  |
|     |
+-----+

into this:

+-----+
|1*3*1|
|13*31|
| 2*2 |
| 111 |
+-----+

Running tests

Execute the tests with:

$ elixir minesweeper_test.exs

Pending tests

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Once you get a test passing, you can unskip the next one by commenting out the relevant @tag :pending with a # symbol.

For example:

# @tag :pending
test "shouting" do
  assert Bob.hey("WATCH OUT!") == "Whoa, chill out!"
end

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# ExUnit.configure exclude: :pending, trace: true

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minesweeper_test.exs

if !System.get_env("EXERCISM_TEST_EXAMPLES") do
  Code.load_file("minesweeper.exs", __DIR__)
end

ExUnit.start()
ExUnit.configure(exclude: :pending, trace: true)

defmodule MinesweeperTest do
  use ExUnit.Case

  defp clean(b), do: Enum.map(b, &String.replace(&1, ~r/[^*]/, " "))

  # @tag :pending
  test "zero size board" do
    b = []
    assert Minesweeper.annotate(clean(b)) == b
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "empty board" do
    b = ["   ", "   ", "   "]
    assert Minesweeper.annotate(clean(b)) == b
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "board full of mines" do
    b = ["***", "***", "***"]
    assert Minesweeper.annotate(clean(b)) == b
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "surrounded" do
    b = ["***", "*8*", "***"]
    assert Minesweeper.annotate(clean(b)) == b
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "horizontal line" do
    b = ["1*2*1"]
    assert Minesweeper.annotate(clean(b)) == b
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "vertical line" do
    b = ["1", "*", "2", "*", "1"]
    assert Minesweeper.annotate(clean(b)) == b
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "cross" do
    b = [" 2*2 ", "25*52", "*****", "25*52", " 2*2 "]
    assert Minesweeper.annotate(clean(b)) == b
  end
end

defmodule Minesweeper do

  @doc """
  Annotate empty spots next to mines with the number of mines next to them.
  """
  @spec annotate([String.t]) :: [String.t]

  @neighbors [{-1, -1}, {-1, 0}, {-1, 1}, {0, 1}, {1, 1}, {1, 0}, {1, -1}, {0, -1}]

  def annotate(board) do
    print(board, count(board))
  end

  defp count(board) do
    board
    |> Enum.with_index(0)
    |> Enum.reduce(%{}, fn({row, row_index}, acc_rows) ->
      row
      |> String.graphemes
      |> Enum.with_index(0)
      |> Enum.reduce(acc_rows, fn({field, column_index}, acc_fields) ->
        case field do
          " " -> acc_fields
          "*" ->
            acc_fields
            |> Map.put({column_index, row_index}, "*")
            |> count_up_neighbors({column_index, row_index})
        end
      end)
    end)
  end

  defp count_up_neighbors(board, {column_index, row_index}) do
    @neighbors
    |> Enum.reduce(board, fn({column_delta, row_delta}, acc) ->
      acc
      |> Map.update({column_index + column_delta, row_index + row_delta}, 1, &(count_up(&1)))
    end)
  end

  defp count_up(field) do
    case field do
      "*" -> "*"
      x -> x + 1
    end
  end

  defp print(board, board_with_counts) do
    board
    |> Enum.with_index(0)
    |> Enum.map(fn({row, row_index}) ->
      row
      |> String.graphemes
      |> Enum.with_index(0)
      |> Enum.reduce("", fn({field, column_index}, acc) ->
        acc <> case Map.get(board_with_counts, {column_index, row_index}) do
          nil -> " "
          x -> "#{x}"
        end
      end)
    end)
  end
end

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