LeetCode Top Interview Questions 269. Alien Dictionary (Java版; Hard)
题目描述
There is a new alien language which uses the latin alphabet. However, the order among letters are unknown to you. You receive a list of non-empty words from the dictionary, where words are sorted lexicographically by the rules of this new language. Derive the order of letters in this language.
Example 1:
Input:
[
"wrt",
"wrf",
"er",
"ett",
"rftt"
]
Output: "wertf"
Example 2:
Input:
[
"z",
"x"
]
Output: "zx"
Example 3:
Input:
[
"z",
"x",
"z"
]
Output: ""
Explanation: The order is invalid, so return "".
Note:
You may assume all letters are in lowercase.
You may assume that if a is a prefix of b, then a must appear before b in the given dictionary.
If the order is invalid, return an empty string.
There may be multiple valid order of letters, return any one of them is fine.
第一次做;巩固一下拓扑排序, 这里也可以说是拓扑遍历; 相似的题:两道Course Schedule II 210题和Course Schedule 207题