Write a function to generate the generalized abbreviations of a word.
Example:
Given word = "word"
, return the following list (order does not matter):
["word", "1ord", "w1rd", "wo1d", "wor1", "2rd", "w2d", "wo2", "1o1d", "1or1", "w1r1", "1o2", "2r1", "3d", "w3", "4"]
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public List<String> generateAbbreviations(String word) { List<String> list=new ArrayList<>(); search(word.toCharArray(),list,new StringBuffer(),0,0); return list; } public void search(char[] word,List<String> list,StringBuffer str,int count,int len){ int length=str.length(); if(len==word.length){ if(count!=0) str.append(count); list.add(str.toString()); }else{ search(word,list,str,count+1,len+1); if(count!=0){ str.append(count); } search(word,list,str.append(word[len]),0,len+1); } str.setLength(length); }