#!/usr/bin/perl

# http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1131329 [code challenge] knights move

use strict;
use warnings;

my @queue = my $start = <<endofdata; # find backwards
OOO
...
...
XXX
endofdata

tr/XO/OX/ for my $end = $start;
my %from;
my $count = 0;

my @changes = map { # make all patterns
  my ($skip, $gap) = map "\0" x $_, split /-/;
  [ "$skip\xff$gap\xff",
    "${skip}.${gap}X", "${skip}X${gap}.", "${skip}v${gap}v",
    "${skip}.${gap}O", "${skip}O${gap}.", "${skip}a${gap}a" ],
  } qw(0-5 0-8 1-6 1-8 2-1 2-6 4-5 4-8 5-6 5-8 6-1 6-6 8-5 10-1);

while( $_ = shift @queue and $_ ne $end ) # breadth first search
  {
  for my $change ( @changes )
    {
    my ($mask, $x, $xrev, $xnew, $o, $orev, $onew) = @$change;
    if( ($mask &= $_) eq $x || $mask eq $xrev )
      {
      $xnew ^= $_;
      $from{$xnew} //= do { push @queue, $xnew; $_ };
      }
    elsif( $mask eq $o || $mask eq $orev )
      {
      $onew ^= $_;
      $from{$onew} //= do { push @queue, $onew; $_ };
      }
    }
  }

my $answer;

while( $from{$end} ) # print in reverse order of found
  {
  $count++;
  if( $answer )
    {
    my @lines = $end =~ /.+/g;
    $answer =~ s/\n/'  ' . shift(@lines) . "\n"/ge;
    }
  else
    {
    $answer = $end;
    }
  $end eq $start and last;
  $end = $from{$end}; # go back a step
  }

printf '%3d' . '  %3d' x ($count-1) . "\n\n", 1..$count;
print $answer;
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