I am trying to work in this code for weeks. I need to convert rows and columns in a 2d array to blocks. it should work on any matrix in size n*n. (that I have been given the size of the array) for example: this:
int[][] input = {{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}} ;
this is need to be the output:
{{1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3}
{4,5,6,4,5,6,4,5,6}
{7,8,9,7,8,9,7,8,9}
{1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3}
{4,5,6,4,5,6,4,5,6}
{7,8,9,7,8,9,7,8,9}
{1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3}
{4,5,6,4,5,6,4,5,6}
{7,8,9,7,8,9,7,8,9}}
I always stuck in some point.
that is the code that I wrote:
sqrtN is the size.
in the case that mentioned above, the sqrtN here is 3.
` public static int[][] blocks(int[][] matrix, int sqrtN) {
int[][] blocks = matrix;
int i = 0;
int counter = 1;
while(counter+1<sqrtN){
int n = sqrtN;//"n" will the size of the matrix.
while(n<blocks.length){
int t = counter;
int j = 0;
while(t<blocks.length){
int k = n;
if(t==counter & i%n==0 & i>0)
j= t-1;
if(j%sqrtN==0)
i = 0;
while(k==n || k%sqrtN!=0){
int temp = blocks[t][i];
blocks[t][i] = blocks[j][k];
blocks[j][k] = temp;
i= i+1;
k= k+1;
}
j=j+sqrtN;
t=t+sqrtN;
}
n= n+sqrtN;
counter= counter+1;
}
i=counter;
}
return blocks;`
I will really be glad to find the answer the problem.
thanks guys.