算法分析与设计第五周作业
题目
Given two words (beginWord and endWord), and a dictionary’s word list, find all shortest transformation sequence(s) from beginWord to endWord, such that:
Only one letter can be changed at a time
Each transformed word must exist in the word list. Note that beginWord is not a transformed word.
解答
class Solution {
public:
vector<vector<string>> findLadders(string beginWord, string endWord, vector<string>& wordList) {
vector<vector<string>> res;
unordered_set<string> dict(wordList.begin(), wordList.end());
vector<string> p{beginWord};
queue<vector<string>> paths;
paths.push(p);
int level = 1, minLevel = INT_MAX;
unordered_set<string> words;
while (!paths.empty()) {
auto t = paths.front(); paths.pop();
if (t.size() > level) {
for (string w : words) dict.erase(w);
words.clear();
level = t.size();
if (level > minLevel) break;
}
string last = t.back();
for (int i = 0; i < last.size(); ++i) {
string newLast = last;
for (char ch = 'a'; ch <= 'z'; ++ch) {
newLast[i] = ch;
if (!dict.count(newLast)) continue;
words.insert(newLast);
vector<string> nextPath = t;
nextPath.push_back(newLast);
if (newLast == endWord) {
res.push_back(nextPath);
minLevel = level;
} else paths.push(nextPath);
}
}
}
return res;
}
};