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December 18, 2018 00:36
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Write a function that accepts an integer N and returns a NxN spiral matrix.
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// --- Examples | |
// matrix(2) | |
// [[1, 2], | |
// [4, 3]] | |
// matrix(3) | |
// [[1, 2, 3], | |
// [8, 9, 4], | |
// [7, 6, 5]] | |
// matrix(4) | |
// [[1, 2, 3, 4], | |
// [12, 13, 14, 5], | |
// [11, 16, 15, 6], | |
// [10, 9, 8, 7]] | |
function matrix(n) { | |
const results = []; | |
for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) { | |
results.push([]); | |
} | |
let counter = 1; | |
let startColumn = 0; | |
let endColumn = n - 1; | |
let startRow = 0; | |
let endRow = n - 1; | |
while (startColumn <= endColumn && startRow <= endRow) { | |
for (let i = startColumn; i <= endColumn; i++) { | |
results[startRow][i] = counter; | |
counter++; | |
} | |
startRow++; | |
for (let i = startRow; i <= endRow; i++) { | |
results[i][endColumn] = counter; | |
counter++; | |
} | |
endColumn--; | |
for (let i = endColumn; i >= startColumn; i--) { | |
results[endRow][i] = counter; | |
counter++; | |
} | |
endRow--; | |
for (let i = endRow; i >= startRow; i--) { | |
results[i][startColumn] = counter; | |
counter++; | |
} | |
startColumn++; | |
} | |
return results; | |
} |
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