Given two words (start and end), and a dictionary, find all shortest transformation sequence(s) from start to end, such that:
Only one letter can be changed at a time
Each intermediate word must exist in the dictionary
For example,
Given:
start = "hit"
end = "cog"
dict = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log"]
Return
[
["hit","hot","dot","dog","cog"],
["hit","hot","lot","log","cog"]
]
解题思路:
本题应该是目前遇到的最Hard的一道了,思路先按照Java for LeetCode 127 Word Ladder的代码进行dfs找到 ladderLength 然后以 ladderLength 为步长进行DFS,这里进行DFS需要从后往前(因为disMap是从前往后建立的,从前往后的话前期肯定有无数匹配,从后往前的话,只要匹配就是要找到alist)
JAVA实现如下:
static public List<List<String>> findLadders(String start, String end,Set<String> dict) { List<List<String>> result = new LinkedList<List<String>>(); LinkedList<String> queue = new LinkedList<String>(); HashMap<String, Integer> disMap = new HashMap<String, Integer>(); queue.add(start); disMap.put(start, 1); int depth = -1; findDepth: while (!queue.isEmpty()) { String word = queue.poll(); for (int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(word); for (char ch = 'a'; ch <= 'z'; ch++) { sb.setCharAt(i, ch); String nextWord = sb.toString(); if (nextWord.equals(end)) { depth = disMap.get(word) + 1; break findDepth; } if (dict.contains(nextWord) && !disMap.containsKey(nextWord)) { queue.add(nextWord); disMap.put(nextWord, disMap.get(word) + 1); } } } } if (depth > 0) dfs(result, start, end, disMap, depth,new LinkedList<String>()); return result; } static void dfs(List<List<String>> result, String start, String end,HashMap<String, Integer> disMap, int depth,List<String> alist) { alist.add(0, end); if (end.equals(start)) result.add(new LinkedList<String>(alist)); if (depth <= 1) return; String word = alist.get(0); for (int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(word); for (char ch = 'a'; ch <= 'z'; ch++) { sb.setCharAt(i, ch); String nextWord = sb.toString(); if (disMap.containsKey(nextWord)&&disMap.get(nextWord)==depth-1) { dfs(result, start, nextWord, disMap, depth - 1,alist); alist.remove(0); } } } }