题目:
Given two words (beginWord and endWord), and a dictionary's word list, find all shortest transformation sequence(s) from beginWord to endWord, such that:
- Only one letter can be changed at a time
- Each intermediate word must exist in the word list
For example,
Given:
beginWord = "hit"
endWord = "cog"
wordList = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log"]
Return
[ ["hit","hot","dot","dog","cog"], ["hit","hot","lot","log","cog"] ]
Note:
- All words have the same length.
- All words contain only lowercase alphabetic characters.
class WordNode{
String word;
int numSteps;
WordNode pre;
public WordNode(String word, int numSteps, WordNode pre){
this.word = word;
this.numSteps = numSteps;
this.pre = pre;
}
}
public class Solution {
public List<List<String>> findLadders(String start, String end, Set<String> dict) {
List<List<String>> result = new ArrayList<List<String>>();
LinkedList<WordNode> queue = new LinkedList<WordNode>();
queue.add(new WordNode(start, 1, null));
dict.add(end);
int minStep = 0;
HashSet<String> visited = new HashSet<String>();
HashSet<String> unvisited = new HashSet<String>();
unvisited.addAll(dict);
int preNumSteps = 0;
while(!queue.isEmpty()){
WordNode top = queue.remove();
String word = top.word;
int currNumSteps = top.numSteps;
if(word.equals(end)){
if(minStep == 0){
minStep = top.numSteps;
}
if(top.numSteps == minStep && minStep !=0){
//nothing
ArrayList<String> t = new ArrayList<String>();
t.add(top.word);
while(top.pre !=null){
t.add(0, top.pre.word);
top = top.pre;
}
result.add(t);
continue;
}
}
if(preNumSteps < currNumSteps){
unvisited.removeAll(visited);
}
preNumSteps = currNumSteps;
char[] arr = word.toCharArray();
for(int i=0; i<arr.length; i++){
for(char c='a'; c<='z'; c++){
char temp = arr[i];
if(arr[i]!=c){
arr[i]=c;
}
String newWord = new String(arr);
if(unvisited.contains(newWord)){
queue.add(new WordNode(newWord, top.numSteps+1, top));
visited.add(newWord);
}
arr[i]=temp;
}
}
}
return result;
}
}