Traverse Matrix in Diagonal strips

Question

I thought this problem had a trivial solution, couple of for loops and some fancy counters, but apparently it is rather more complicated.

So my question is, how woul

Answer 1

I would probably do something like this (apologies in advance for any index errors, haven't debugged this):

// Operation to be performed on each slice:
void doSomething(const int lengthOfSlice,
                 elementType *slice,
                 const int stride) {
    for (int i=0; i