LeetCode 017 Letter Combinations of a Phone Number

Letter Combinations of a Phone Number

Given a string containing digits from 2-9 inclusive, 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. Note that 1 does not map to any letters.

Example:

Input: "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.
(并不要求按序输出)

题目分析

给出数字所有可能代表的字符组合

这个题目不难，就是一个全排列，但是我想不到一个比较好的方式处理数字和字符的对应关系。看了Solution发现使用了map，只能说豁然开朗。

class Solution {
  Map<String, String> phone = new HashMap<String, String>() {{
    put("2", "abc");
    put("3", "def");
    put("4", "ghi");
    put("5", "jkl");
    put("6", "mno");
    put("7", "pqrs");
    put("8", "tuv");
    put("9", "wxyz");
  }};

  List<String> output = new ArrayList<String>();

  public void backtrack(String combination, String next_digits) {
    // if there is no more digits to check
    if (next_digits.length() == 0) {
      // the combination is done
      output.add(combination);
    }
    // if there are still digits to check
    else {
      // iterate over all letters which map 
      // the next available digit
      String digit = next_digits.substring(0, 1);
      String letters = phone.get(digit);
      for (int i = 0; i < letters.length(); i++) {
        String letter = phone.get(digit).substring(i, i + 1);
        // append the current letter to the combination
        // and proceed to the next digits
        backtrack(combination + letter, next_digits.substring(1));
      }
    }
  }

  public List<String> letterCombinations(String digits) {
    if (digits.length() != 0)
      backtrack("", digits);
    return output;
  }
}