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Solution: Regions Cut by Slashes

Understand how to apply the Union Find pattern to solve the Regions Cut by Slashes problem by dividing each 1x1 grid cell into four parts, merging them based on slashes, and connecting neighboring cells to count distinct regions.

Statement

An n×nn \times n grid is composed of nn, 1×11 \times 1 squares, where each 1×11 \times 1 square consists of a “/”, “\”, or a blank space. These characters divide the square into adjacent regions.

Given the grid represented as a string array, return the number of regions.

Note:

  1. Backslash characters are escaped, so “\” is represented as “\\”.
  2. A 1×11 \times 1 square in the grid will be referred to as a box.

Constraints:

  • The grid consists of only “/”, “\”, or " " characters.
  • 1 \leq grid.length \leq
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