public void Solve()
{
Console.WriteLine("Trying to solve the following Sudoku:");
sudoku.PrintSudoku();
Stopwatch stopWatch = new Stopwatch();
stopWatch.Start();
algorithms = ChooseAlgorithms.GetAlgorithms(SolvingAlgorithms.All);
algorithms.ForEach(algorithm =>
{
Console.WriteLine("Using " + algorithm.ToString());
threads.Add(new Thread(algorithm.Solve));
});
foreach (Thread thread in threads)
{
thread.IsBackground = true;
thread.Start(sudoku);
}
WaitForAllThreads(lifespan);
stopWatch.Stop();
TimeSpan ts = stopWatch.Elapsed;
Console.WriteLine("\nRunTime {0}.{1:D3} Seconds", ts.Seconds, ts.Milliseconds);
if (ValidateSudoku())
{
Console.WriteLine("Solved correctly\n");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("I am way too dumb to solve this sudoku\n");
}
sudoku.PrintSudoku();
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.Title = "Sudoku Solver";
while (true)
{
// get filepath from input and read it's contents
Console.WriteLine("Enter path to text file:");
string filepath = Console.ReadLine();
string[] lines = FileReader.ReadFromFile(filepath);
if (lines != null)
{
// print contents from file
Console.WriteLine("\nContents read from file:\n");
foreach (string line in lines)
{
Console.WriteLine(line);
}
Console.WriteLine();
// parse text to sudoku grid
int[,] numbers = SudokuParser.ParseText(lines);
if (numbers != null)
{
Console.WriteLine("succesfully parsed sudoku\n");
Sudoku sudoku = new Sudoku();
for (int x = 0; x < 9; x++)
{
for (int y = 0; y < 9; y++)
{
sudoku.SetValue(x, y, numbers[x, y]);
}
}
sudoku.PrintSudoku();
Console.WriteLine("solving sudoku...");
Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
stopwatch.Start();
bool solved = sudoku.Solve();
stopwatch.Stop();
if (solved)
{
Console.WriteLine($"solution found in {stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds} milliseconds");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine($"no solution found in {stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds} milliseconds");
}
sudoku.PrintSudoku();
}
}
}
}
