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In basic C please with comments so I can redo It on my own, thank you!

For this lab, you only need to write a single user-defined function that analyzes a 2D array of chars. You do NOT need to write any of the code in main() that calls your function. Make sure to use the template and only add code to the user-defined function.

Write a function win() with the following definition (i.e. prototype):

int win(char board[7][5], char player)

The function win() should return a 1 if the character player is found in three consecutive positions in the board. Consecutive for this lab means in the same row or in the same column, NOT on a diagonal.

For the board shown below,

A    B   B   D   E
Z    A   B   G   G
Z    B   A   G   G
Z    Z   X   G   K
X    X   O   K   O
X    X   O   O   W
A    B   B   D   E

the following values should be returned by win() if called as:

• win(board,'A') returns 0
• win(board,'B') returns 0
• win(board,'D') returns 0
• win(board,'G') returns 1
• win(board,'O') returns 0
• win(board,'X') returns 0
• win(board,'Z') returns 1

Answer 1

Here is the completed code for this problem. Comments are included, go through it, learn how things work and let me know if you have any doubts or if you need anything to change. If you are satisfied with the solution, please rate the answer. Thanks

#include<stdio.h>

//required method

int win(char board[7][5], char player){

                //declaring an int variable to store the count of consecutive occurrence

                //of the player value

                int count;

                //checking horizontally (row wise)

                //looping through each row

                for(int i=0;i<7;i++){

                                //setting count to 0

                                count=0;

                                //looping through each column

                                for(int j=0;j<5;j++){

                                               //if character at current location is player, incrementing count

                                               if(board[i][j]==player){

                                                               count++;

                                                               //if count reach 3, returning 1 (found)

                                                               if(count==3){

                                                                               return 1;

                                                               }

                                               }else{

                                                               //if the character is not player, resetting count to 0

                                                               count=0;

                                               }

                                }

                }

               

                //checking vertically (column wise)

                //looping through each column

                for(int j=0;j<5;j++){

                                //setting count to 0

                                count=0;

                                //looping through each row

                                for(int i=0;i<7;i++){

                                               if(board[i][j]==player){

                                                               count++;

                                                               if(count==3){

                                                                               return 1;

                                                               }

                                               }else{

                                                               count=0;

                                               }

                                }

                }

                return 0; //not found

}

int main(){

                //testing

                char board[7][5]={

                {'A','B','B','D','E'},

                {'Z','A','B','G','G'},

                {'Z','B','A','G','G'},

                {'Z','Z','X','G','K'},

                {'X','X','O','K','O'},

                {'X','X','O','O','W'},

                {'A','B','B','D','E'}};

               

                printf("%d\n",win(board,'A')); //0

                printf("%d\n",win(board,'B')); //0

                printf("%d\n",win(board,'D')); //0

                printf("%d\n",win(board,'G')); //1

                printf("%d\n",win(board,'O')); //0

                printf("%d\n",win(board,'X')); //0

                printf("%d\n",win(board,'Z')); //1

                return 0;

}

/*OUTPUT*/

0

0

0

1

0

0

1