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Leaves Remaining After Wind Gusts

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Problem statement

A rectangular garden is represented by garden. The value garden[r][c] is the number of leaves initially in cell (r, c).

Process every character of gusts from left to right. A gust shifts all leaves that are still present by one cell:

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Example 1

garden = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]gusts = "R"return = 12

The rightmost column leaves the garden. The surviving original values are 1, 2, 4, and 5.

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