# Leetcode: Spiral Matrix

Spiral Matrix

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Given a matrix of m x n elements (m rows, n columns), return all elements of the matrix in spiral order.

```For example,
Given the following matrix:

[
[ 1, 2, 3 ],
[ 4, 5, 6 ],
[ 7, 8, 9 ]
]
You should return [1,2,3,6,9,8,7,4,5].
```

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```## Blog link: https://code.dennyzhang.com/spiral-matrix
## Basic Ideas:
##            The visit is a loop with four directions: right, down, left, up
##            Two counters: num1(how many items for right and left)
##                          num2 (how many items for down and up)
##            num1, num2 = column_count, row_count - 1
##               right     down     left     up
##               num1--   num2--   num1--   num2--
##               num1--   num2--   num1--   num2--
##            Quit if num1 == 0 or num2 == 0
## Complexity: Time O(m*n), Space O(1)
class Solution(object):
def spiralOrder(self, matrix):
"""
:type matrix: List[List[int]]
:rtype: List[int]
"""
row_count = len(matrix)
if row_count == 0:
return []
res = []
column_count = len(matrix[0])
num1, num2 = column_count, row_count - 1
direction_list = 'rdlu'
direction_index = 0
i, j = 0, 0
while True:
direction = direction_list[direction_index]
# print("num1: %d, num2: %d, direction: %s" % (num1, num2, direction))
if direction in 'rl':
direction_count = num1
num1 -= 1
else:
direction_count = num2
num2 -= 1
if direction_count == 0:
break
for k in xrange(direction_count):
# print("i: %d, j:%d" % (i, j))
res.append(matrix[i][j])
if k == direction_count - 1:
# move to next direction
if direction == 'r':
i += 1
if direction == 'd':
j -= 1
if direction == 'l':
i -= 1
if direction == 'u':
j += 1
else:
# move to next element
if direction == 'r':
j += 1
if direction == 'd':
i += 1
if direction == 'l':
j -= 1
if direction == 'u':
i -= 1
direction_index = (direction_index+1) % 4
return res
```

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