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Given an array S of n integers, are there elements a, b, c in S such that a + b + c = 0? Find all unique triplets in the array which gives the sum of zero.
Note: The solution set must not contain duplicate triplets.
For example, given array S = [-1, 0, 1, 2, -1, -4],
A solution set is:
[
[-1, 0, 1],
[-1, -1, 2]
]
最初思路:将问题转化成two sum
代码:
class Solution {
public:
//two sum
vector<int> twoSum(vector<int>& nums,int target) {
map<int,int>m;
for(int i=0;i<nums.size();++i)
if(m.count(target-nums[i]))
{if(m[target-nums[i]]!=i)
return {nums[i],target-nums[i],-target};}
else m[nums[i]]=i;
return {};
}
vector<vector<int>> threeSum(vector<int>& nums) {
vector<vector<int>> v;
for(int i=0;i<nums.size();++i){
v.push_back( twoSum(nums,-nums[i]));
}
return v;
}
};
但是此代码不能将重复的去除,结果如下:
Input:
[-1,0,1,2,-1,-4]
Output:
[[1,0,-1],[1,-1,0],[0,-1,1],[-1,-1,2],[1,0,-1],[]]
Expected:
[[-1,-1,2],[-1,0,1]]
如果要改进的话。可以在twosum里将那三个数排序,然后在threesum里用set这种不重复容器存储,这里我就不改进了。
第二种解法:
class Solution {
public:
vector<vector<int>> threeSum(vector<int>& nums) {
set<vector<int>> s;int j,k;
sort(nums.begin(),nums.end());
for(int i=0;i<nums.size();++i){
j=i+1;k=nums.size()-1;
while(j<k){
if(nums[i]+nums[j]+nums[k]==0)
{ s.insert({nums[i],nums[j],nums[k]});
while(j<k&&nums[k]==nums[k-1]) --k;//为了避免重复
while(j<k&&nums[j]==nums[j+1]) ++j;//为了避免重复
//这里是不需要再对nums[i]==nums[i+1]再做考虑,因为set不允许重复
++j;--k;}
else
if(nums[i]+nums[j]<-nums[k]) ++j;
else --k;
}
}
return{s.begin(),s.end()};
}
};
昨天做3sum closest的时候才意识到j和k从两头往中间走的妙处。