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.
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class Solution(object):
def bt(self,dic,s,temp,start,l,res):
if l == len(s):
res.append(temp)
for i in range(start,len(s)):
for j in dic[s[i]]:
self.bt(dic,s,temp+j,i+1,l+1,res)
def letterCombinations(self, digits):
if len(digits) == 0:
return []
dic = {'2':'abc','3':'def','4':'ghi','5':'jkl','6':'mno','7':'pqrs','8':'tuv','9':'wxyz'}
res = []
#print len(dic['2'])
self.bt(dic,digits,'',0,0,res)
return res