Leetcode 17. Letter Combinations of a Phone Number (Medium) (cpp)

Leetcode 17. Letter Combinations of a Phone Number (Medium) (cpp)

Tag: Backtracking, String

Difficulty: Medium

/*

17. Letter Combinations of a Phone Number (Medium)

Given 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.

*/
class Solution {
public:
    vector<string> letterCombinations(string digits) {
        vector<string> res;
        if (digits.empty()) return res;
        vector<string> letters = {"", "", "abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqrs", "tuv", "wxyz"};
        string s;
        generate(digits, res, 0, s, letters);
        return res;
    }
    void generate(string digits, vector<string>& res, int start, string s, vector<string>& letters) {
        if (start == digits.length()) {
            res.push_back(s);
            return;
        }
        int num = digits[start] - '0';
        for (int j = 0; j < letters[num].length(); j++) {
            s.push_back(letters[num][j]);
            generate(digits, res, start + 1, s, letters);
            s.pop_back();
        }
    }
};