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Sudoku source

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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You will need these 6 files
Sudoku.pm the perl sudoku solve module
SudokuCGI.pm the perl sudoku CGI module
sudoku.plx the perl console test sudoku script
solve.cgi the (perl) cgi script for the solver
generate.cgi the (perl) cgi script for the generator
sudoku.css CSS for the results of the *.cgi
out of sudoku.tgz (gzipped tar-archive)

The Modules Sudoku.pm and SudokuCGI.pm should stay in the same directory as sudoku.plx, solve.cgi or generator.cgi does - because the actual directory . is normaly included in @INC - so both can use Sudoku.

sudoku.plx

For sudoku.plx you have to create an input-puzzle-file. This file has 9 lines for each sudoku-puzzle-lines. Each line has 9 characters. A 1,2,3...9 stay for it self. Any other character stay for any which is to solve.

Save the following as puzzle.in

.7.1.8.6.
..1...9..
.6.....2.
3.62.71.4
.........
1.95.42.6
.1.....8.
..7...4..
.3.4.9.5.

Then enter

./sudoku.plx puzzle.in

If you have more puzzles stored in the directories say easy/ and hard/ you could say

./sudoku.plx easy/* hard/*

solve.cgi generate.cgi

Save both together with Sudoku.pm and sudoku.css on your WEB-server and configure your server to call .cgi as cgi-scripts.

Suduku.pm

The whole puzzle-square is represented with a 81 element array. It is stored row by row. So index 0..8 is the first row, index 9..17 the second, ...
The results are stored as array of references to such 81 element squares.

Use and call the solver as follows:

use Sudoku;

  ...

my @square;
my $maxres = 15;

  #
  # fill the square all other than 1..9 says don't care
  #

my @results = Sudoku::Solve($maxres, @square);

for my $result ( @results )
  {
    #
    # output @$result
    #
  }
  
printf "class = %s [%d]\n", Sudoku::Class, Sudoku::Measure;

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