Word Break

https://leetcode.com/problems/word-break/

本以为是一道dfs的递归题目,但是超时。对于下面的case,会超时

“aaaaaaaa”
[“aaaa”,”aa”,”a”]

递归程序

def wordBreak(self, s, wordDict):
        """
        :type s: str
        :type wordDict: Set[str]
        :rtype: bool
        """
        if not s: return True
        for i in xrange(len(s) + 1):
            if s[:i] in wordDict:
                if i == len(s): return True
                #print i
                j = i + 1

                while (s[:j] in wordDict):
                    j += 1
                #print j
                return self.wordBreak(s[j - 1:], wordDict)
        return False

实际上要用dp。最后求bool型变量的也可以用dp,

class Solution:
    # @param s, a string
    # @param dict, a set of string
    # @return a boolean
    # @good coding!
    def wordBreak(self, s, dict):
        dp = [False for i in range(len(s)+1)]
        dp[0] = True#这里要注意给dp[0]初始化为True,比如s就一个word,刚好就在dict中。
        for i in range(1, len(s)+1):
            for k in range(i):
                if dp[k] and s[k:i] in dict:
                    dp[i] = True
        return dp[len(s)]

Word Break II

https://leetcode.com/problems/word-break-ii/

思路就是上一题的dp结合dfs


class Solution:
    # @param s, a string
    # @param dict, a set of string
    # @return a list of strings
    def check(self, s, dict):
        dp = [False for i in range(len(s)+1)]
        dp[0] = True
        for i in range(1, len(s)+1):
            for k in range(0, i):
                if dp[k] and s[k:i] in dict:
                    dp[i] = True
        return dp[len(s)]

    def dfs(self, s, dict, stringlist):
        if self.check(s, dict):
            if len(s) == 0: Solution.res.append(stringlist[1:])
            for i in range(1, len(s)+1):
                if s[:i] in dict:#这里的子节点就是递增的prefix string
                    self.dfs(s[i:], dict, stringlist+' '+s[:i])

    def wordBreak(self, s, dict):
        Solution.res = []
        self.dfs(s, dict, '')
        return Solution.res