leetcode- 39. Combination Sum

39. Combination Sum

iven a set of candidate numbers (C) (without duplicates) and a target number (T), find all unique combinations in C where the candidate numbers sums to T.

The same repeated number may be chosen from C unlimited number of times.

Note:

• All numbers (including target) will be positive integers.
• The solution set must not contain duplicate combinations.

For example, given candidate set [2, 3, 6, 7] and target 7, 
A solution set is: 

[
  [7],
  [2, 2, 3]
]

和前面的subsets的思路基本是一致的，只是要添加一个判断，向结果里添加元素的时候，要满足和为 target；还需要使用 i 而不是

i+1，因为可以使用重复的元素。

class Solution {
    public List<List<Integer>> combinationSum(int[] nums, int target) {
        List<List<Integer>> list = new ArrayList<>();
        Arrays.sort(nums);
        backtrack(list, new ArrayList<>(), nums, target, 0);
        return list;
    }

    private void backtrack(List<List<Integer>> list, List<Integer> tempList, int [] nums, int remain, int start){
        if(remain < 0) return;
        else if(remain == 0) list.add(new ArrayList<>(tempList));
        else{ 
            for(int i = start; i < nums.length; i++){
                tempList.add(nums[i]);
                backtrack(list, tempList, nums, remain - nums[i], i); // not i + 1 because we can reuse same elements
                tempList.remove(tempList.size() - 1);
            }
        }
    }
}