leetcode--Letter Combinations of a Phone Number
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.
Brute force method can be accepted by leetcode online judge.
public class Solution { public ArrayList<String> letterCombinations(String digits) { String[] keyboard = new String[]{"","","abc","def","ghi","jkl","mno", "pqrs","tuv","wxyz"}; ArrayList<String> result = new ArrayList<String>(); result.add(""); for(int i = 0; i < digits.length(); ++i){ int k = digits.charAt(i) - 48; if(k != 0 && k != 1){ ArrayList<String> temp = new ArrayList<String>(); while(!result.isEmpty()){ String s = result.remove(0); for(int j = 0; j < keyboard[k].length(); ++j){ StringBuffer stb = new StringBuffer(s); stb.append(keyboard[k].charAt(j)); temp.add(stb.toString()); } } result = temp; } } return result; } }