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Shortest Path in Binary Matrix

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GraphBFSMatrix

Given a binary matrix grid, return the length of the shortest clear path from the top-left cell to the bottom-right cell, or -1 if none exists. A clear path visits only cells with value 0 and may move in any of the 8 directions. Path length is the number of visited cells.

Example 1

Input:  grid = [[0,1],[1,0]]
Output: 2

Example 2

Input:  grid = [[0,0,0],[1,1,0],[1,1,0]]
Output: 4

Constraints

  • 1 <= m, n <= 100
  • grid[i][j] is 0 or 1.
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