Problem 50. QWERTY coordinates

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Given a lowercase letter or a digit as input, return the row where that letter appears on a standard U.S. QWERTY keyboard and its position starting from the leftmost digit or letter on that row.
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 Input  key = 'a'
 Output r = 3
        c = 1
 Input  key = '0'
 Output r = 1
        c = 10
 Input  key = 'y'
 Output r = 2
        c = 6

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Tran Tran on 19 Mar 2022

Create a key board matrix and find ez.Should add more space ' ' char to fill the gap in each row cause number of elements in rows are not equally.

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