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211. Add and Search Word Data structure design

Jacky Zhang edited this page Dec 5, 2016 · 1 revision

Design a data structure that supports the following two operations:

void addWord(word)
bool search(word)

search(word) can search a literal word or a regular expression string containing only letters a-z or .. A . means it can represent any one letter.

For example:

addWord("bad")
addWord("dad")
addWord("mad")
search("pad") -> false
search("bad") -> true
search(".ad") -> true
search("b..") -> true

Note: You may assume that all words are consist of lowercase letters a-z.

解题思路为Trie。

public class WordDictionary {
    
    public class TrieNode {
        public TrieNode[] children = new TrieNode[26];
        public String item = "";
    }
    
    private TrieNode root = new TrieNode();

    // Adds a word into the data structure.
    public void addWord(String word) {
        TrieNode node = root;
        for (char c : word.toCharArray()) {
            if (node.children[c - 'a'] == null) {
                node.children[c - 'a'] = new TrieNode();
            }
            node = node.children[c - 'a'];
        }
        node.item = word;
    }

    // Returns if the word is in the data structure. A word could
    // contain the dot character '.' to represent any one letter.
    public boolean search(String word) {
        return match(word.toCharArray(), 0, root);
    }
    
    private boolean match(char[] chs, int k, TrieNode node) {
        if(k == chs.length) return !node.item.equals("");
        if (chs[k] != '.') {
            return node.children[chs[k] - 'a'] != null && match(chs, k+1, node.children[chs[k] - 'a']);
        } else {
            for(int i = 0; i < node.children.length; i++) {
                if(node.children[i] != null) {
                    if(match(chs, k+1, node.children[i])) return true;
                }
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
}

// Your WordDictionary object will be instantiated and called as such:
// WordDictionary wordDictionary = new WordDictionary();
// wordDictionary.addWord("word");
// wordDictionary.search("pattern");
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