Add and Search Word - Data structure design
Design a data structure that supports the following two operations:
void addWord(word)
bool search(word)
search(word) can search a literal word or a regular expression string containing only letters a-z or .. A . means it can represent any one letter.
For example:
addWord("bad")
addWord("dad")
addWord("mad")
search("pad") -> false
search("bad") -> true
search(".ad") -> true
search("b..") -> true
Note:
You may assume that all words are consist of lowercase letters a-z.
class WordDictionary {
public:
WordDictionary(){
root = new Node();
}
// Adds a word into the data structure.
void addWord(string word) {
int len = word.length();
Node* p = root;
for(int i = 0; i < len; i++){
int id = word[i] - 'a';
if(p->next[id] == NULL) p->next[id] = new Node();
p = p->next[id];
} p->someWordCompleteHere = true;
}
// Returns if the word is in the data structure. A word could
// contain the dot character '.' to represent any one letter.
bool search(string word) {
return dfs(word, root, 0);
}
private:
struct Node{
Node(){
someWordCompleteHere = false;
memset(next, NULL, sizeof(next));
}
bool someWordCompleteHere;
Node *next[26];
} * root;
bool dfs(string& word, Node* p, int i){
if(i == word.length()) return p->someWordCompleteHere;
int id = -1;
if(word[i] != '.') id = word[i] - 'a';
if(id != -1){
if(p->next[id] == NULL) return false;
else return dfs(word, p->next[id], i+1);
}
for(int id = 0; id < 26; id++){
if(p->next[id] != NULL && dfs(word, p->next[id], i+1)) return true;
} return false;
}
};
// Your WordDictionary object will be instantiated and called as such:
// WordDictionary wordDictionary;
// wordDictionary.addWord("word");
// wordDictionary.search("pattern");