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Keys and Doors

Difficulty: 2100 6000 ms 128 MB

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A grid maze contains your start @, walls #, keys a-f and matching doors A-F (a door needs its key). Print the fewest steps to collect ALL keys, or −1.

Input: the first line has N and M; the next N lines are the maze.

Output: the minimum steps to hold every key, or −1.

Constraints:

  • 1 ≤ N, M ≤ 100
  • at most 6 keys

Sample Tests

Input 1
3 4
@a.A
....
....
Output 1
1
Input 2
1 3
@#a
Output 2
-1

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