Given a string s and a dictionary of words dict, add spaces in s to construct a sentence where each word is a valid dictionary word.
Return all such possible sentences.
For example, given
s = “catsanddog”,
dict = [“cat”, “cats”, “and”, “sand”, “dog”].
A solution is [“cats and dog”, “cat sand dog”].
思路分析:这题可以用DFS 搜索递归做,基本是brute force的解法,dfs函数要维护的量包括startIndex,preWords和res,startIndex表示当前进行word break的起点,也就是说前面如果已经被break了,应该排除在外。preWords主要维护目前已经breaked的string前面的部分,后面从startIndex一旦发现新的word可以添加到preWords之后,dfs返回的条件是当startIndex已经越界,也就是>=s.length()了,就把当前得到的word break方案加入res。从题目的实例我们也可以看出,同一个字符串可以有多个word break方案,因此我们从前向后scan 字符串发现第一个可以break的词的时候需要更新preWords进行dfs递归调用。这题是NP问题,时间复杂度为O(2^n)也就是指数级别。 这类DFS递归搜索的题目有很多,除了word break,还有八皇后,Sudoku Solver等等,都是这类题目,在面试中很常见,要多加练习。
AC Code:以下是brute force DFS搜索AC的从code。由于LeetCode有一个很长的不能break的测试用例,因此把word break I 判断能否break的函数作为sub routine,先判断一下能否break,如果不能直接返回空容器。
public class Solution {
public List<String> wordBreak(String s, Set<String> dict) {
ArrayList<String> res = new ArrayList<String>();
if(s == null || s.isEmpty() || !wordBreakCanDo(s, dict)){
return res;
}
dfs(s, dict, 0, "", res);
return res;
}
//10:08
public void dfs(String s, Set<String> dict, int startIndex, String preWords, ArrayList<String> res){
if(startIndex >= s.length()){
//return contition is that the startIndex has been out of bound
res.add(preWords);
return;
}
for(int i = startIndex; i < s.length(); i++){
String curStr = s.substring(startIndex, i+1);
if(dict.contains(curStr)){
String newSol;
if(preWords.length() > 0){
newSol = preWords + " " + curStr;
} else {
newSol = curStr;
}
dfs(s, dict, i + 1, newSol, res);
}
}
}
//1021
public boolean wordBreakCanDo(String s, Set<String> dict) {
s = "#" + s;
boolean[] canSegmented = new boolean[s.length()];
canSegmented[0] = true;
for(int i = 1; i < s.length(); i++){
for(int k = 0; k < i; k++){
canSegmented[i] = canSegmented[k] && dict.contains(s.substring(k + 1, i + 1));
if(canSegmented[i]) break;
}
}
return canSegmented[s.length() - 1];
}
}