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# 1087.Brace-Expansion

## 1087. Brace Expansion

## 题目地址

<https://leetcode.com/problems/brace-expansion/>

## 题目描述

```
A string S represents a list of words.

Each letter in the word has 1 or more options.  If there is one option, the letter is represented as is.  If there is more than one option, then curly braces delimit the options.  For example, "{a,b,c}" represents options ["a", "b", "c"].

For example, "{a,b,c}d{e,f}" represents the list ["ade", "adf", "bde", "bdf", "cde", "cdf"].

Return all words that can be formed in this manner, in lexicographical order.

Example 1:
Input: "{a,b}c{d,e}f"
Output: ["acdf","acef","bcdf","bcef"]

Example 2:
Input: "abcd"
Output: ["abcd"]

Note:
1 <= S.length <= 50
There are no nested curly brackets.
All characters inside a pair of consecutive opening and ending curly brackets are different.
```

## 代码

### Approach #1 DFS

Time: O(N) && Space: O(N)

```java
class Solution {
  public String[] expand(String S) {
        TreeSet<String> set = new TreeSet<>();
    if (S.length() == 0) {
      return new String[]{""};
    } else if (S.length() == 1) {
      return new String[]{S};
    }

    if (S.charAt(0) == '{') {
      int i = 0;
      while (S.charAt(i) != '}') {
        i++;
      }
      String sub = S.substring(1, i);
      String[] subs = sub.split(",");
      String[] strs = expand(S.substring(i + 1)); // dfs
      for (int j = 0; j < subs.length; j++) {
        for (String str: strs) {
          set.add(subs[j] + str);
        }
      }
    } else {
      String[] strs = expand(S.substring(1));
      for (String str: strs) {
        set.add(S.charAt(0) + str);
      }
    }
    return set.toArray(new String[0]);
  }
}
```

### #2 Without TreeSet

```java
class Solution {
  public String[] expand(String S) {
    int n = S.length();
    if (n == 0) {
      return new String[]{""};
    }
    if (n == 1) {
      return new String[]{S};
    }

    List<String> res = new ArrayList<>();
    if (S.charAt(0) == '{') {
      int count = 0;
      int i = 0;
      while (i < S.length()) {
        if (S.charAt(i) == '}') {
          break;
        }
        i++;
      }
      String[] l = S.substring(1, i).split(",");
      String[] r = expand(S.substring(i + 1));
      for (String ll: l) {
        for (String rr: r) {
          res.add(ll + rr);
        }
      }
    } else {
      String[] r = expand(S.substring(1));
      for (String rr: r) {
        res.add(S.charAt(0) + rr);
      }
    }
    Collections.sort(res);
    return res.toArray(new String[0]);
  }
}
```


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