ABCPATH - ABC Path

You will be given a 2-dimensional grid of letters. Find the length of the longest path of consecutive letters, starting at 'A'. Paths can step from one letter in the grid to any adjacent letter (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally).

For example, in the following grid, there are several paths from 'A' to 'D', but none from 'A' to 'E':

ABC

One such path is:

path

Input

Each test case will start with a line contains two integers H, W the height and width of the grid respectively 1 <= H, W <= 50. Then H lines follow each of W uppercase letters only. Input terminates with H = 0 and W = 0.

Output

For each test case print “Case C: X” without quotes where C is the case number starting with 1 and X is the solution.

Example

Sample Input:
4 3
ABE
CFG
BDH
ABC
0 0

Sample Output:
Case 1: 4

Added by:Ali Arous
Date:2011-11-05
Time limit:1s
Source limit:50000B
Memory limit:1536MB
Cluster: Cube (Intel G860)
Languages:All except: ASM64
Resource:FCIS Local Contest 2012

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2015-11-23 14:53:47 sathya_dev
For those getting WA. A Path has to start from 'A' and sequence of consecutive letters (not just any sequence of consecutive letters.
BCD & AB the op = 2 not 3.
2015-11-05 09:48:00 varun yadav
finally accepted :p
2015-10-31 14:53:00 Himanshu Bansal
nice question
2015-10-19 13:26:48 dev
FIRST dfs prob !! Ac :)
2015-10-08 10:29:54 topke
This is easy i don't know why it has 20% success rate :D
2015-09-29 04:39:08 Shashank Tiwari
Well , instead of saying DFS , i will say recursion with memoization
2015-09-15 11:37:25
mr salimi what r u doing ?
2015-09-08 19:49:44 Harsh Vardhan Ladha
Consider the case when matrix do not have character A
Caused me 3 WA :/

DFS

Similar Problem : ALLIZWELL
2015-07-16 18:35:27 Steven Hans Limantoro
Multisource BFS is your friend (y)

Last edit: 2015-07-16 18:40:19
2015-07-07 12:00:14 SangKuan
One TLE, One WA.first use bfs...then output error.haha
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