Meta Software Developer interview questions

Find clouds in an image. Essentially the island problem but diagonal 1’s are not part of the group.

How to implement a function to check whether there is a path for a string in a matrix of characters? It moves to left, right, up and down in a matrix, and a cell for a movement. The path can start from any entry in a matrix. If a cell is occupied by a character of a string on the path, it cannot be occupied by another character again