An abbreviation of a word follows the form <first letter><number><last letter>. Below are some examples of word abbreviations:
a) it --> it (no abbreviation) 1 b) d|o|g --> d1g 1 1 1 1---5----0----5--8 c) i|nternationalizatio|n --> i18n 1 1---5----0 d) l|ocalizatio|n --> l10n
Assume you have a dictionary and given a word, find whether its abbreviation is unique in the dictionary. A word's abbreviation is unique if no other word from the dictionary has the same abbreviation.
Example:
Given dictionary = [ "deer", "door", "cake", "card" ]
isUnique("dear") -> false
isUnique("cart") -> true
isUnique("cane") -> false
isUnique("make") -> true
先看下面这道题的解释:
The description (A word's abbreviation is unique if no other word from the dictionary has the same abbreviation) is clear however a bit twisting. It took me a few "Wrong Answer"s to finally understand what it's asking for.
We are trying to search for a word in a dictionary. If this word (also this word’s abbreviation) is not in the dictionary OR this word and only it’s abbreviation in the dictionary. We call a word’s abbreviation unique.
EX:
1) [“dog”]; isUnique(“dig”);
//False, because “dig” has the same abbreviation with “dog" and “dog” is already in the dictionary. It’s not unique.
2) [“dog”, “dog"]; isUnique(“dog”);
//True, because “dog” is the only word that has “d1g” abbreviation.
3) [“dog”, “dig”]; isUnique(“dog”);
//False, because if we have more than one word match to the same abbreviation, this abbreviation will never be unique.
可以理解为把这个字符串加进来会不会有重复,如果里面有这个缩写,而且对应的单词跟这个单词不相等,返回false,相等返回true;如果里面没这个缩写,返回true。在创建词典的时候,如果两个词指向了同一个缩写,把这个缩写对应的单词设成“”,因为这个缩写在词典中都不能唯一,废缩写。代码如下:
public class ValidWordAbbr {
HashMap<String, String> hm = new HashMap<String, String>();
public ValidWordAbbr(String[] dictionary) {
for (int i = 0; i < dictionary.length; i++) {
String str = trasfstr(dictionary[i]);
if (hm.containsKey(str) && !dictionary[i].equals(hm.get(dictionary[i]))) {
hm.put(str, "");
} else {
hm.put(str, dictionary[i]);
}
}
}
public boolean isUnique(String word) {
String strword = trasfstr(word);
if (hm.containsKey(strword)) {
if (word.equals(hm.get(strword))) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
} else {
return true;
}
}
private String trasfstr(String oldstr) {
String newstr = "";
if (oldstr.length() <= 2) {
newstr = oldstr;
} else {
newstr = "" + oldstr.charAt(0) + (oldstr.length() - 2) + oldstr.charAt(oldstr.length() - 1);
}
return newstr;
}
}
// Your ValidWordAbbr object will be instantiated and called as such:
// ValidWordAbbr vwa = new ValidWordAbbr(dictionary);
// vwa.isUnique("Word");
// vwa.isUnique("anotherWord");