Given an m x n
grid of characters board
and a string word
, return true
if word
exists in the grid.
The word can be constructed from letters of sequentially adjacent cells, where adjacent cells are 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
Example 2:
Input: board = [["A","B","C","E"],["S","F","C","S"],["A","D","E","E"]], word = "SEE" Output: true
Example 3:
Input: board = [["A","B","C","E"],["S","F","C","S"],["A","D","E","E"]], word = "ABCB" Output: false
Constraints:
m == board.length
n = board[i].length
1 <= m, n <= 6
1 <= word.length <= 15
board
andword
consists of only lowercase and uppercase English letters.
Follow up: Could you use search pruning to make your solution faster with a larger board
?
class Solution:
def exist(self, board: List[List[str]], word: str) -> bool:
def dfs(i, j, cur):
if cur == len(word):
return True
if i < 0 or i >= m or j < 0 or j >= n or visited[i][j] or word[cur] != board[i][j]:
return False
visited[i][j] = True
next = cur + 1
res = dfs(i + 1, j, next) or dfs(i - 1, j, next) or dfs(i, j + 1, next) or dfs(i, j - 1, next)
visited[i][j] = False
return res
m, n = len(board), len(board[0])
visited = [[False for _ in range(n)] for _ in range(m)]
for i in range(m):
for j in range(n):
res = dfs(i, j, 0)
if res:
return True
return False
class Solution {
private boolean[][] visited;
public boolean exist(char[][] board, String word) {
int m = board.length, n = board[0].length;
visited = new boolean[m][n];
char[] chars = word.toCharArray();
for (int i = 0; i < m; ++i) {
for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
boolean res = dfs(board, i, j, chars, 0);
if (res) return true;
}
}
return false;
}
private boolean dfs(char[][] board, int i, int j, char[] chars, int cur) {
if (cur == chars.length) return true;
if (i < 0 || i >= board.length || j < 0 || j >= board[0].length) return false;
if (visited[i][j] || board[i][j] != chars[cur]) return false;
visited[i][j] = true;
int next = cur + 1;
boolean res = dfs(board, i + 1, j, chars, next)
|| dfs(board, i - 1, j, chars, next)
|| dfs(board, i, j + 1, chars, next)
|| dfs(board, i, j - 1, chars, next);
visited[i][j] = false;
return res;
}
}