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By electro177, history, 3 years ago, In English

while this is working fine ~~~~~ Your code here... bool emp (int i, int j) { if ( i >= 0 && i < n && j >= 0 && j < m && s[i][j] == '.' )return 1; else return 0;

} ~~~~~

this is giving run time error ~~~~~ Your code here...

bool emp (int i, int j) { if ( s[i][j] == '.' && i >= 0 && i < n && j >= 0 && j < m )return 1; else return 0;

} ~~~~~

does anyone know the reason

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3 years ago, # |
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It happens because operator&& is calculated lazily. It means that if you have expression of kind: A && B && C && D && ... and, for example, A == false, then B, C and others will not be calculated.

In the first case you firstly check that i and j are in a good range and then check array element. It's OK because if indexes are incorrect, you won't check s[i][j] == '.'. In the second case you do it in another order and can go out of range.

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