Given a 2D matrix, print all elements of the given matrix in diagonal order. For example, consider the following 5 X 4 input matrix.

1     2     3     4
    5     6     7     8
    9    10    11    12
   13    14    15    16
   17    18    19    20

Diagonal printing of the above matrix is

 1
    5     2
    9     6     3
   13    10     7     4
   17    14    11     8
   18    15    12
   19    16
   20

Following is C++ code for diagonal printing

The diagonal printing of a given matrix ‘matrix[ROW][COL]’ always has ‘ROW + COL – 1’ lines in output

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 C Programming
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define ROW 5
#define COL 4

// A utility function to find min of two integers
int min(int a, int b)
{ return (a < b)? a: b; }

// A utility function to find min of three integers
int min(int a, int b, int c)
{ return min(min(a, b), c);}

// A utility function to find max of two integers
int max(int a, int b)
{ return (a > b)? a: b; }

// The main function that prints given matrix in diagonal order
void diagonalOrder(int matrix[][COL])
{
// There will be ROW+COL-1 lines in the output
for (int line=1; line<=(ROW + COL -1); line++)
{
/* Get column index of the first element in this line of output.
The index is 0 for first ROW lines and line - ROW for remaining
lines */
int start_col = max(0, line-ROW);

/* Get count of elements in this line. The count of elements is
equal to minimum of line number, COL-start_col and ROW */
int count = min(line, (COL-start_col), ROW);

/* Print elements of this line */
for (int j=0; j<count; j++)
printf("%5d ", matrix[min(ROW, line)-j-1][start_col+j]);

/* Ptint elements of next diagonal on next line */
printf("\n");
}
}

// Utility function to print a matrix
void printMatrix(int matrix[ROW][COL])
{
for (int i=0; i< ROW; i++)
{
for (int j=0; j<COL; j++)
printf("%5d ", matrix[i][j]);
printf("\n");
}
}

// Driver program to test above functions
int main()
{
int M[ROW][COL] = {{1, 2, 3, 4},
{5, 6, 7, 8},
{9, 10, 11, 12},
{13, 14, 15, 16},
{17, 18, 19, 20},
};
printf ("Given matrix is \n");
printMatrix(M);

printf ("\nDiagonal printing of matrix is \n");
diagonalOrder(M);
return 0;
}

Output:

Given matrix is
    1     2     3     4
    5     6     7     8
    9    10    11    12
   13    14    15    16
   17    18    19    20

Diagonal printing of matrix is
    1
    5     2
    9     6     3
   13    10     7     4
   17    14    11     8
   18    15    12
   19    16
   20
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