Scramble String
Given a string s1
, we may represent it as a binary tree by partitioning it to two non-empty substrings recursively.
Below is one possible representation of s1 = "great"
:
great
/ \
gr eat
/ \ / \
g r e at
/ \
a t
To scramble the string, we may choose any non-leaf node and swap its two children.
For example, if we choose the node "gr"
and swap its two children, it produces a scrambled string "rgeat"
.
rgeat
/ \
rg eat
/ \ / \
r g e at
/ \
a t
We say that "rgeat"
is a scrambled string of "great"
.
Similarly, if we continue to swap the children of nodes "eat"
and "at"
, it produces a scrambled string "rgtae"
.
rgtae
/ \
rg tae
/ \ / \
r g ta e
/ \
t a
We say that "rgtae"
is a scrambled string of "great"
.
Given two strings s1
and s2
of the same length, determine if s2
is a scrambled string of s1
.
1 public class Solution { 2 /** 3 * @param s1 A string 4 * @param s2 Another string 5 * @return whether s2 is a scrambled string of s1 6 */ 7 public boolean isScramble(String s1, String s2) { 8 if (s1.length() != s2.length()) return false; 9 10 if (s1.equals(s2)) return true; 11 12 if (!isValid(s1, s2)) { 13 return false; 14 } 15 16 for (int i = 1; i < s1.length(); i++) { 17 String s11 = s1.substring(0, i); 18 String s12 = s1.substring(i); 19 20 String s21 = s2.substring(0, i); 21 String s22 = s2.substring(i); 22 23 String s23 = s2.substring(0, s2.length() - i); 24 String s24 = s2.substring(s2.length() - i); 25 26 if (isScramble(s11, s21) && isScramble(s12, s22) || isScramble(s11, s24) && isScramble(s12, s23)) { 27 return true; 28 } 29 } 30 return false; 31 } 32 33 private boolean isValid(String s1, String s2) { 34 char[] arr1 = s1.toCharArray(); 35 char[] arr2 = s2.toCharArray(); 36 Arrays.sort(arr1); 37 Arrays.sort(arr2); 38 if (!(new String(arr1)).equals(new String(arr2))) { 39 return false; 40 } 41 return true; 42 } 43 }