Dsa
Graphs Dfs
Medium
Island Counting
You are given a 2D grid of '0's (water) and '1's (land). An island is formed by connecting adjacent lands horizontally or vertically. Write a program to count the number of distinct islands in the grid.
Input Format:
- The first line contains two integers, M (rows) and N (columns).
- The next M lines each contain a string of length N representing the grid.
Output Format:
- Print a single integer indicating the number of distinct islands.
Example:
Input:
4 5
11000
11000
00100
00011
Output:
3
Key concepts
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