NAME

Sudoku - Perl extension for solving Su Doku puzzles

SYNOPSIS

    use Games::Sudoku::Board;

    my @board = qw(
                   0 2 0 8 1 0 7 4 0
                   7 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0
                   0 9 0 0 0 2 8 0 5
                   0 0 9 0 4 0 0 8 7
                   4 0 0 2 0 8 0 0 3
                   1 6 0 0 3 0 2 0 0
                   3 0 2 7 0 0 0 6 0
                   0 0 5 6 0 0 0 0 8
                   0 7 6 0 5 1 0 9 0
                   );

   my $game = new Games::Sudoku::Board($game_name, $debug, $pause);

   $game->init(\@board);

   $game->displayBoard();

   $game->solve();

   $game->displayBoard();

   $game->verify();

DESCRIPTION

    This module solves Su Doku puzzles.

    The puzzle should be stored in a single dimension array or in a file, where unknown characters presented by zero

    A sample code along with test layouts can be found in examples directory of this distribution.

TODO

    - Add error handling and invalid layout capture

    - Add support for 16x16 boards
    
    - Write better documentation

AUTHOR

    Eugene Kulesha, <kulesha@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    Copyright (C) 2005 by Eugene Kulesha

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or,
    at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.