<p>Write a program to solve a Sudoku puzzle by filling the empty cells.</p>

<p>A sudoku solution must satisfy <strong>all of the following rules</strong>:</p>

<ol>
	<li>Each of the digits <code>1-9</code> must occur exactly once in each row.</li>
	<li>Each of the digits <code>1-9</code> must occur exactly once in each column.</li>
	<li>Each of the digits <code>1-9</code> must occur exactly once in each of the 9 <code>3x3</code> sub-boxes of the grid.</li>
</ol>

<p>The <code>&#39;.&#39;</code> character indicates empty cells.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong class="example">Example 1:</strong></p>
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Sudoku-by-L2G-20050714.svg/250px-Sudoku-by-L2G-20050714.svg.png" style="height:250px; width:250px" />
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<strong>Input:</strong> board = [[&quot;5&quot;,&quot;3&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;7&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;],[&quot;6&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;1&quot;,&quot;9&quot;,&quot;5&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;],[&quot;.&quot;,&quot;9&quot;,&quot;8&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;6&quot;,&quot;.&quot;],[&quot;8&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;6&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;3&quot;],[&quot;4&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;8&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;3&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;1&quot;],[&quot;7&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;2&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;6&quot;],[&quot;.&quot;,&quot;6&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;2&quot;,&quot;8&quot;,&quot;.&quot;],[&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;4&quot;,&quot;1&quot;,&quot;9&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;5&quot;],[&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;8&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;.&quot;,&quot;7&quot;,&quot;9&quot;]]
<strong>Output:</strong> [[&quot;5&quot;,&quot;3&quot;,&quot;4&quot;,&quot;6&quot;,&quot;7&quot;,&quot;8&quot;,&quot;9&quot;,&quot;1&quot;,&quot;2&quot;],[&quot;6&quot;,&quot;7&quot;,&quot;2&quot;,&quot;1&quot;,&quot;9&quot;,&quot;5&quot;,&quot;3&quot;,&quot;4&quot;,&quot;8&quot;],[&quot;1&quot;,&quot;9&quot;,&quot;8&quot;,&quot;3&quot;,&quot;4&quot;,&quot;2&quot;,&quot;5&quot;,&quot;6&quot;,&quot;7&quot;],[&quot;8&quot;,&quot;5&quot;,&quot;9&quot;,&quot;7&quot;,&quot;6&quot;,&quot;1&quot;,&quot;4&quot;,&quot;2&quot;,&quot;3&quot;],[&quot;4&quot;,&quot;2&quot;,&quot;6&quot;,&quot;8&quot;,&quot;5&quot;,&quot;3&quot;,&quot;7&quot;,&quot;9&quot;,&quot;1&quot;],[&quot;7&quot;,&quot;1&quot;,&quot;3&quot;,&quot;9&quot;,&quot;2&quot;,&quot;4&quot;,&quot;8&quot;,&quot;5&quot;,&quot;6&quot;],[&quot;9&quot;,&quot;6&quot;,&quot;1&quot;,&quot;5&quot;,&quot;3&quot;,&quot;7&quot;,&quot;2&quot;,&quot;8&quot;,&quot;4&quot;],[&quot;2&quot;,&quot;8&quot;,&quot;7&quot;,&quot;4&quot;,&quot;1&quot;,&quot;9&quot;,&quot;6&quot;,&quot;3&quot;,&quot;5&quot;],[&quot;3&quot;,&quot;4&quot;,&quot;5&quot;,&quot;2&quot;,&quot;8&quot;,&quot;6&quot;,&quot;1&quot;,&quot;7&quot;,&quot;9&quot;]]
<strong>Explanation:</strong>&nbsp;The input board is shown above and the only valid solution is shown below:

<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sudoku-by-L2G-20050714_solution.svg/250px-Sudoku-by-L2G-20050714_solution.svg.png" style="height:250px; width:250px" />
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Constraints:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li><code>board.length == 9</code></li>
	<li><code>board[i].length == 9</code></li>
	<li><code>board[i][j]</code> is a digit or <code>&#39;.&#39;</code>.</li>
	<li>It is <strong>guaranteed</strong> that the input board has only one solution.</li>
</ul>

class Solution {
public:
    bool check(vector<vector<char>>& board) {
        for (int i =0; i < 9; i++) {
            vector<bool> cnt (9, false);
            for (int j = 0; j < 9; j++) {
                if (board[i][j] != '.') {
                    if (cnt[board[i][j] - '1']) {
                        return false;
                    } else {
                        cnt[board[i][j] - '1'] = true;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        for (int j =0 ; j< 9; j++) {
            vector<bool> cnt (9, false);
            for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
                if (board[i][j] != '.') {
                    if (cnt[board[i][j] - '1']) {
                        return false;
                    } else {
                        cnt[board[i][j] - '1'] = true;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        for (int a = 0; a < 3; a++) {
            for (int b = 0 ;b < 3; b++) {
                vector<bool> cnt (9, false);
                for (int i= 0; i < 3; i++) {
                    for (int j = 0; j< 3; j++) {
                        if (board[3*a+i][3*b+j] == '.') {
                            continue;
                        }
                        if (cnt[board[3*a+i][3*b+j] - '1']) {
                            return false;
                        } else {
                            cnt[board[3*a+i][3*b+j] - '1'] = true;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    bool recurse(vector<vector<char>>& board, vector<pair<int, int>>& cells, int i) {
        if (i == cells.size()) {
            return true;
        }
        pair<int, int>& cell = cells[i];
        for (char c = '1'; c <= '9'; c++) {
            board[cell.first][cell.second] = c;
            if (check(board)) {
                if (recurse(board, cells, i+1)) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
        }
        board[cell.first][cell.second] = '.';
        return false;
    }

    void solveSudoku(vector<vector<char>>& board) {
        vector<pair<int, int>> cells;
        for (int i= 0;i < 9; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j< 9; j++) {
                if (board[i][j] == '.') {
                    cells.push_back({i, j});
                }
            }
        }
        recurse(board, cells, 0);
    }
};
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