LeetCode-in-All

17. Letter Combinations of a Phone Number

Medium

Given a string containing digits from 2-9 inclusive, return all possible letter combinations that the number could represent. Return the answer in any order.

A mapping of digit to letters (just like on the telephone buttons) is given below. Note that 1 does not map to any letters.

Example 1:

Input: digits = “23”

Output: [“ad”,”ae”,”af”,”bd”,”be”,”bf”,”cd”,”ce”,”cf”]

Example 2:

Input: digits = “”

Output: []

Example 3:

Input: digits = “2”

Output: [“a”,”b”,”c”]

Constraints:

Solution

# @param {String} digits
# @return {String[]}
def letter_combinations(digits)
  return [] if digits.empty?

  letters = ["", "", "abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqrs", "tuv", "wxyz"]
  ans = []
  find_combinations(0, digits, letters, "", ans)
  ans
end

private

def find_combinations(start, nums, letters, curr, ans)
  if curr.length == nums.length
    ans << curr
    return
  end

  (start...nums.length).each do |i|
    n = nums[i].to_i
    letters[n].each_char do |ch|
      find_combinations(i + 1, nums, letters, curr + ch, ans)
    end
  end
end