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Mark a Queen’s Attack Board

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Problem statement

Given a square board size and a zero-based queen position, return the board as strings. Use Q for the queen, X for every other cell in the queen’s row, column, or diagonals, and . for an unattacked cell.

Function

markQueenAttacks(size: int, queenRow: int, queenCol: int) → String[]

Examples

Example 1

size = 4queenRow = 0queenCol = 0return = ["QXXX","XX..","X.X.","X..X"]

Example 2

size = 3queenRow = 1queenCol = 1return = ["XXX","XQX","XXX"]

Constraints

1 <= size <= 200.
0 <= queenRow, queenCol < size.