1,
Letter Combinations of a Phone Number
Total Accepted: 10538 Total Submissions: 40738Given a digit string, return all possible letter combinations that the number could represent.
A mapping of digit to letters (just like on the telephone buttons) is given below.
Input:Digit string "23" Output: ["ad", "ae", "af", "bd", "be", "bf", "cd", "ce", "cf"].
Note:
Although the above answer is in lexicographical order, your answer could be in any order you want.
2, recursive
class Solution {
public:
vector<string> letterCombinations(string digits) {
vector<string> res;
string temp;
rec(res, temp, digits, 0);
return res;
}
private:
void rec(vector<string> &res, string &temp, const string &digits, unsigned int level) {
if(level == digits.length()) {
res.push_back(temp);
return;
}
string str = getMapChars(digits[level]);
for(int i=0; i< str.length(); i++) {
temp.push_back( str[i] );
rec(res, temp, digits, level+1);
temp.pop_back();
}
}
string getMapChars(char digit) {
if(digit<'2' || digit >'9') return "";
string arr[] = {"abc","def","ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqrs", "tuv", "wxyz"};
return arr[digit - '0' - 2];
}
};
2. iterative java
public class Solution {
public List<String> letterCombinations(String digits) {
//init check
List<String> res = new ArrayList<String>();
if(digits==null || digits.length()==0) return res;
res.add("");
String[] map = {"abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqrs", "tuv", "wxyz"};
for(int i=0; i<digits.length(); i++) {
int index = digits.charAt(i) - '2' ;
String s = map[index]; //check valid number
int len = res.size();
for(int j=0; j<len; j++) {
String str = res.get(j);
res.set(j, str + s.charAt(0));
for(int m=1; m<s.length(); m++) {
res.add(str + s.charAt(m));
}
}
}
return res;
}
}
3, iterative c++
class Solution {
public:
vector<string> letterCombinations(string digits) {
// Start typing your C/C++ solution below
// DO NOT write int main() function
const string letters[] = {"abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqrs", "tuv", "wxyz"};
vector<string> ret(1, "");
for (int i = 0; i < digits.size(); ++i) {
for (int j = ret.size() - 1; j >= 0; --j) {
const string &s = letters[digits[i] - '2'];
for (int k = s.size() - 1; k >= 0; --k) {
if (k)
ret.push_back(ret[j] + s[k]);
else
ret[j] += s[k];
}
}
}
return ret;
}
};