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Word search¶

Time: O(MxNxL); Space: O(L); medium

Given a 2D board and a word, find if the word exists in the grid.

The word can be constructed from letters of sequentially adjacent cell, where “adjacent” cells are those horizontally or vertically neighboring. The same letter cell may not be used more than once.

Example 1:

Input: board =

[
  ['A','B','C','E'],
  ['S','F','C','S'],
  ['A','D','E','E']
],
word = "ABCCED"

Output: True

Explanation:

  • (0,0)A->(0,1)B->(0,2)C->(1,2)C->(2,2)E->(2,1)D

Example 2:

Input: word = “SEE”

Output: True

Example 3:

Input: word = “ABCB”

Output: False

Constraints:

  • board and word consists only of lowercase and uppercase English letters.

  • 1 <= len(board) <= 200

  • 1 <= len(board[i]) <= 200

  • 1 <= word.length <= 10^3

[2]:
class Solution1(object):
    """
    Time: O(M*N*L)
    Space: O(L)
    """
    def exist(self, board, word):
        """
        :type board: List[List[str]]
        :type word: str
        :rtype: bool
        """
        visited = [[False for j in range(len(board[0]))] for i in range(len(board))]

        for i in range(len(board)):
            for j in range(len(board[0])):
                if self.existRecu(board, word, 0, i, j, visited):
                    return True

        return False

    def existRecu(self, board, word, cur, i, j, visited):
        if cur == len(word):
            return True

        if i < 0 or i >= len(board) or j < 0 or j >= len(board[0]) or visited[i][j] or board[i][j] != word[cur]:
            return False

        visited[i][j] = True
        result = self.existRecu(board, word, cur + 1, i + 1, j, visited) or \
                 self.existRecu(board, word, cur + 1, i - 1, j, visited) or \
                 self.existRecu(board, word, cur + 1, i, j + 1, visited) or \
                 self.existRecu(board, word, cur + 1, i, j - 1, visited)
        visited[i][j] = False

        return result
[3]:
s = Solution1()

board = [
  ['A','B','C','E'],
  ['S','F','C','S'],
  ['A','D','E','E']
]
word = "ABCCED"
assert s.exist(board, word) == True

word = "SEE"
assert s.exist(board, word) == True

word = "ABCB"
assert s.exist(board, word) == False

See also:¶

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

https://www.lintcode.com/problem/word-search/description

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