Use the data structure Trie to do pruning while DFS. But you need to be careful about the way you implement the Trie. I tried the map<char, TrieNode*> to save all connections and got a TLE. So I then used TrieNode* next[26] and got accepted.
class TrieNode {
public:
// Initialize your data structure here.
TrieNode() {
for(int i=0;i<26;i++)
next[i]=NULL;
}
TrieNode(char _c) {
c=_c;
isword=0;
for(int i=0;i<26;i++)
next[i]=NULL;
}
char c;
bool isword;
TrieNode* next[26];
};
class Trie {
public:
Trie() {
root = new TrieNode();
}
// Inserts a word into the trie.
void insert(string word) {
int len=word.length();
TrieNode *curr=root;
for(int i=0;i<len;i++)
{
int idx=word[i]-'a';
if(curr->next[idx]==NULL)
curr->next[idx]=new TrieNode(word[i]);
curr=curr->next[idx];
}
curr->isword=1;
}
// Returns if the word is in the trie.
bool search(string word) {
int len=word.length();
TrieNode *curr=root;
for(int i=0;i<len;i++)
{
int idx=word[i]-'a';
if(curr->next[idx]==NULL)
return false;
curr=curr->next[idx];
}
return curr->isword;
}
// Returns if there is any word in the trie
// that starts with the given prefix.
bool startsWith(string prefix) {
int len=prefix.length();
TrieNode *curr=root;
for(int i=0;i<len;i++)
{
int idx=prefix[i]-'a';
if(curr->next[idx]==NULL)
return false;
curr=curr->next[idx];
}
return true;
}
private:
TrieNode* root;
};
class Solution {
public:
vector<string> findWords(vector<vector<char>>& board, vector<string>& words) {
Trie tree;
int m=board.size();
int n=board[0].size();
int wordnum=words.size();
for(int i=0;i<wordnum;i++)
tree.insert(words[i]);
set<string> st;
string s;
for(int i=0;i<m;i++)
for(int j=0;j<n;j++)
dfs_search(i,j,board,tree,st,s);
vector<string> res;
set<string>::iterator it;
for(it=st.begin();it!=st.end();it++)
res.push_back(*it);
return res;
}
void dfs_search(int i,int j,vector<vector<char> >& board,Trie& tree,set<string>& st,string& curr)
{
if(tree.startsWith(curr+board[i][j]))
{
curr.push_back(board[i][j]);
if(tree.search(curr))
st.insert(curr);
char temp=board[i][j];
board[i][j]='*';
if(i!=0&&board[i-1][j]!='*')
dfs_search(i-1,j,board,tree,st,curr);
if(j!=0&&board[i][j-1]!='*')
dfs_search(i,j-1,board,tree,st,curr);
if(i!=board.size()-1&&board[i+1][j]!='*')
dfs_search(i+1,j,board,tree,st,curr);
if(j!=board[0].size()-1&&board[i][j+1]!='*')
dfs_search(i,j+1,board,tree,st,curr);
board[i][j]=temp;
curr.pop_back();
}
}
};