[leetcode -- backtracking]Combinations of a Phone Number

17 Letter Combinations of a Phone Number

题目:Given a digit string, 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.

Input:Digit string "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.
Letter Combinations of a Phone Number

解题思路:很显然这道题我们应该用暴力搜索来求解. 如果digits的长度是固定的(n), 则我们可以直接写一个n重for循环来解决. 但是现在的问题是digits的长度不是固定的, 因此我们也就不能直接用for循环来解决, 因为无法确定for循环的重数. 此时, 我们很容易想到回溯法, 因为回溯法实际上就是一个类似枚举的搜索尝试过程.

首先根据数字与字母的映射关系, 我们建立映射表来保存这种映射关系. 然后递归的搜索满足条件(index==digits.size())的结果. 代码如下所示.

class Solution {
public:
    vector letterCombinations(string digits) {
        vector ret;
        if(digits.empty())
            return ret;
        vector table = {"", "", "abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqrs", "tuv", "wxyz"};
        string comb(digits.size(), 0);
        helper(0, table, comb, digits, ret);
        return ret;
    }
    
    void helper(int index, vector& table, string& comb, string& digits, vector& ret) {
        if(index == digits.size()) {
            ret.push_back(comb);
        }
        
        string letters = table[digits[index]-'0'];
        for(int i = 0; i < letters.size(); ++i) {
            comb[index] = letters[i];
            helper(index+1, table, comb, digits, ret);
        }
    }
};