LeetCode – Word Pattern (Java)

Category: Algorithms   May 2, 2014

Given a pattern and a string str, find if str follows the same pattern. Here follow means a full match, such that there is a bijection between a letter in pattern and a non-empty word in str.

Java Solution

public boolean wordPattern(String pattern, String str) {
    String[] arr = str.split(" ");  
 
    //prevent out of boundary problem
    if(arr.length != pattern.length())
        return false;
 
    HashMap<Character, String> map = new HashMap<Character, String>();
    for(int i=0; i<pattern.length(); i++){
        char c = pattern.charAt(i);
        if(map.containsKey(c)){
            String value = map.get(c);
            if(!value.equals(arr[i])){
                return false;
            }
        }else if (map.containsValue(arr[i])){
            return false;
        }
        map.put(c, arr[i]);
    }
 
    return true;
}

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  • Amogh Gupta

    Python3 equivalent:

    def check(pattern, arr):
    arr_w=arr.split()
    if(len(pattern)!=len(arr_w)):
    return False
    dictpat={}
    for i in range(len(pattern)):
    if pattern[i] in dictpat:
    if(dictpat[pattern[i]]!=arr_w[i]):
    return False
    elif(arr_w[i] in dictpat.values()):
    return False
    dictpat[pattern[i]]=arr_w[i]
    return True

    Test Case:

    pat=”abaabbc”
    words=”dog cat dog dog cat cat donkey”
    print(check(pat, words))

  • mg

    O(N) solution.. not splitting the str to words

    public boolean wordPattern(String pattern, String str) {

    int countOfWords = pattern.length();
    Map oneToOneMap = new HashMap();

    String word = null;
    int start = 0;
    char ch = ' ';

    for(int j = 0; j < str.length(); j++){
    if(countOfWords == 0){
    return false;
    }
    if(str.charAt(j) == ' '){
    //word
    word = str.substring(start, j);
    ch = pattern.charAt(pattern.length() - countOfWords);
    countOfWords--;
    start = j+1;
    if(!isValidRelation(oneToOneMap , ch, word)){
    return false;
    }
    }
    }

    if(start < str.length()){
    if(countOfWords == 0){
    return false;
    }
    word = str.substring(start);
    ch = pattern.charAt(pattern.length() - countOfWords);
    countOfWords--;
    if(!isValidRelation(oneToOneMap , ch, word)){
    return false;
    }
    }

    return countOfWords == 0;
    }

    boolean isValidRelation(Map oneToOneMap , char ch, String word){

    if(oneToOneMap.containsKey(ch)){
    if(!word.equals(oneToOneMap.get(ch))){
    return false;
    }
    }else if(oneToOneMap.containsValue(word)){
    return false;
    }else{
    oneToOneMap.put(ch, word);
    }

    return true;
    }

  • Tarun Gulati

    Not a O(N) solution, to make it a O(N) linear solution we could use a reverse map as well.