There are two reasons why I sugested the above mentioned approach.
1. While implementing a simple algorithm that is capable of solving sudoku like I sugested above is probably to easy for you
having that in your program might actually be usefull when designing your more advanced algorithms becouse it gives you the ability to compare the results which I belive could quickly alow you to find errors in your more advanced algorithms.
2. My knowledge on solvig sudoku is more or les basic. When you are mentioning all those advanced aproaches for solving sudoku it is simply giving me a headacke becouse I probably have never used them or perhaps did used them without being aware of it
Anywhay as I sad my knowledge on sovig Sudoku is prety limited. I have been taught the verry basics of solving the Sudoku from my mother. But later I actually learned a bit more, especially about searching for singles, from studying a soruce code for a sudoku solver that is written in pascal (using Delphi) and has been posted on Delphi.About comunity by Ron Malizia but I can't find it anymore.
Ron Malizia's sudoku solver gratly influenced the way how I did mine. Later on I trued to improve mine even further by adding support for multithreading and provide a way for 4 by 4 sudoku. Now if my memory serves me corectly I have sucsesfully implemented 4 by 4 sudoku solver but I failed on multithreading support becouse my knowledge on that matter was just to weak at the time (I kept corrupting my data and the biggest mistake was accesing VCL from other threads).
So in short I probably won't be of to much help to you unless I learn how to use all these advanced approaches myself
EDIT: As for your post not being seen after you have posted it. I suggest that next time you try to refresh the webpage before asuming the post wasn't posted. PGD site is being hosted from multiple synchronized servers to provide load balancing capability and sometimes it happens that all the servers might not be in perfect sync therefore your post is still not seen.
Unfortunately we don't have direct controll on this as it is being controlled by our site host (GoDaddy) so we can't debug the main cause for this. Fortunately these ocurances are quite rare. Infact I belive it has been almost a yer since such thing was last reported.
EDIT2: I just noticed that the reason why your post wasn't seen is becouse it was waiting for moderation. That shouldn't have happen since you are already a full member. I will report this isue to the site Admin so we can figure out why this happened.
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