Given a grid of characters output a decoded message. The message for the following would be IROCKA. (diagonally down right and diagonally up right if you can't go further .. you continue doing this) I B C A L K A D R F C A E A G H O E L A D

as there are 21 characters and you describe a grid, I'm assuming it's 3x7: I B C A L K A D R F C A E A G H O E L A D Starting from the upper left and moving SE till a wall, then moving NE, then moving SE yields IROCLED, not IROCKA. However my human-powered fuzzy search is telling me it's much more likely that the answer is IROCKED, so I'm wondering whether the 1. author misremembered the original grid 2. the author misremembered the correct answer and the grid 3. I misunderstood the question.

var arr = [ ['I','B','C','A','L','K','A'], ['D','R','F','C','A','E','A'], ['G','H','O','E','L','A','D'] ]; var row = 0, col = 0; var totalCols = arr[0].length; var totalRows = arr.length; var msg = ''; while (col < totalCols) { msg += arr[row][col]; // row++ if less than total rows // row-- if back at row 0 row = (row === 0 || row < totalRows - 1) ? row + 1 : row - 1; // always go forward in column col++; } // returns 'IROCLED'

All solutions in here are wrong as they never go back up to the 0th row after first descent. ``` var arr = [ ['I','B','C','A','K','E','A'], ['D','R','F','C','A','E','A'], ['G','H','O','E','L','A','D'] ]; var row = 0, col = 0; var totalCols = arr[0].length; var totalRows = arr.length; var goingDown = false; var msg = ''; while (col < totalCols) { msg += arr[row][col]; // row++ if less than total rows // row-- if back at row 0 if (row === 0 || (row < totalRows - 1 && goingDown)) { row += 1; goingDown = true; } else { row -= 1; goingDown = false; } // always go forward in column col++; } console.log(msg) // IROCKED ```

var message = [ ['I', 'B', 'C', 'A', 'K', 'E', 'A'], ['D', 'R', 'F', 'C', 'A', 'E', 'A'], ['G', 'H', 'O', 'E', 'L', 'A', 'D'] ]; let forward = false, col = 0; for (let row = 0, len = message[0].length; row

var arr=[['I','B','C','A','L','K','A'],['D','R','F','C','A','E','A'],['G','H','O','E','L','A','D']] var result=""; var goDownward; for(var j=0,i=0;j

function decodeMessage(matrix) { let result = ''; let decode = function(matrix, i = 0, j = 0) { // check if matrix is null or empty if (matrix === null || matrix.length === 0) { return; } result += matrix[i][j]; //check the boundary of matrix with i and j let {x, y} = {x : matrix.length, y : matrix[0].length}; if ((i + 1) === x){ i -= 1; } else { i += 1; } j += 1; if (j === y) { return; } decode(matrix, i, j); } decode(matrix); return result; } let mat = [ ['I','B','C','A','L','K','A'], ['D','R','F','C','A','E','A'], ['G','H','O','E','L','A','D'] ]; console.log(decodeMessage(mat)); //IROCLED

function decode (matrix = []) { let i = 1 const sizeY = matrix.length - 1 const recurse = function (message, x, y) { if (y sizeY) { i = y = row.length) { return message } return recurse( message + row[x], x + 1, y + i, ) } return recurse('', 0, 0) } decode([ ['I', 'B', 'C', 'A', 'K', 'E', 'A'], ['D', 'R', 'F', 'C', 'A', 'E', 'A'], ['G', 'H', 'O', 'E', 'L', 'A', 'D'] ]) // IROCKED

function getWord(met) { let arr = []; let i = met.length - 1; let j = met[0].length - 1; let a = 0; let direction = 1; for(let b = 0; b = i) { direction = -1; } else if(a === 0) { direction = 1; } a = a + direction; } return arr; } let sample= [ ['I', 'B', 'C', 'A', 'L', 'K', 'A'], ['D', 'R', 'F', 'C', 'A', 'E', 'A'], ['G', 'H', 'O', 'E', 'L', 'A', 'D'] ]; getWord(sample);

const grid = [ ["I", "B", "C", "A", "L", "K", "A"], ["D", "R", "F", "C", "A", "E", "A"], ["G", "H", "O", "E", "L", "A", "D"] ]; const decoder = (grid)=>{ const rowsLen = grid.length; let isDown = true; const result = []; let column = 0; let row = 0; while(column < grid[0].length){ result.push(grid[row][column]); column++; if(isDown){ if(row+1 === rowsLen){ isDown = false; row--; }else{ row++; } }else{ if(row-1 <0){ isDown = true; row++; }else{ row--; } } } return result; } console.log(decoder(grid))

var arr=[['I','B','C','A','L','K','A'],['D','R','F','C','A','E','A'],['G','H','O','E','L','A','D']] var result=""; var goDownward; for(var j=0,i=0;j