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Statement

 Goal

Placrates, the labyrinth engineer, is facing a simple puzzle. Given an h×w grid made of + and # characters, the objective to count the number of + characters in the leftmost column from which there exists a path to the rightmost column.

The path can be traced through a series of moves. Each move can be either horizontal or vertical, but not diagonal. Finally, valid moves pass through + characters only.
Input
Line 1 : The height h of the grid.
Line 2 : The width w of the grid.
Next h lines: The rows of the grid, where each row is composed of w space separated characters.
Output
Line 1 : The number of + characters in the leftmost column from which there exists a path to the rightmost column.
Constraints
2 ≤ h,w ≤ 12
Example
Input
2
3
+ + +
+ + +
Output
2

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