[LeetCode 267] Palindrome Permutation II

Given a string s, return all the palindromic permutations (without duplicates) of it. Return an empty list if no palindromic permutation could be form.

For example:

Given s = "aabb", return ["abba", "baab"].

Given s = "abc", return [].

Hint:

1. If a palindromic permutation exists, we just need to generate the first half of the string.
2. To generate all distinct permutations of a (half of) string, use a similar approach from: Permutations II or Next Permutation

Solution:

odd time char must be in the middle position, similar with Palindrome Permutation Question, can use int array to store number of char appear time.

public List generatePalindromes(String s) {
        int[] map = new int[256];
        int min = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        int max = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
        for(char c: s.toCharArray()) {
            map[c]++;
            min = Math.min(min, c);
            max = Math.max(max, c);
        }
        int count = 0;
        List res = new ArrayList<>();
        int oddIndex = 0;
        for(int i=min;i<=max;i++) {
            if(count ==0 && map[i]%2==1) {
                oddIndex = i;
                count++;
            }else if(map[i]%2 == 1){
                return res;
            }
        }
        String cur = "";
        if(count==1) {
            cur += (char)oddIndex;
            map[oddIndex]--;
        }
        dfs(map, cur, s, res);
        return res;        
    }
    private void dfs(int[] map, String cur, String s, List res) {
        if(cur.length()==s.length()) {
            res.add(cur);
            return;
        }
        for(int i=0;i0) {
                map[i]-=2;
                cur = (char)i + cur + (char)i;
                dfs(map, cur, s, res);
                cur = cur.substring(1, cur.length()-1);
                map[i]+=2;
            }
        }
    }