A cool algorithm to check a Sudoku field?

Question

Does anyone know a simple algorithm to check if a Sudoku-Configuration is valid? The simplest algorithm I came up with is (for a board of size n) in Pseudocode

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Answer 1

Some time ago, I wrote a sudoku checker that checks for duplicate number on each row, duplicate number on each column & duplicate number on each box. I would love it if someone could come up one with like a few lines of Linq code though.

char VerifySudoku(char grid[81])
{
    for (char r = 0; r < 9; ++r)
    {
        unsigned int bigFlags = 0;

        for (char c = 0; c < 9; ++c)
        {
            unsigned short buffer = r/3*3+c/3;

                        // check horizontally
            bitFlags |= 1 << (27-grid[(r<<3)+r+c]) 
                        // check vertically
                     |  1 << (18-grid[(c<<3)+c+r])
                        // check subgrids
                     |  1 << (9-grid[(buffer<<3)+buffer+r%3*3+c%3]);

        }

        if (bitFlags != 0x7ffffff)
            return 0; // invalid
    }

    return 1; // valid
}