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boggle solver
package com.interview.algorithms.tree;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.TreeSet;
import com.interview.basics.model.trie.Trie;
import com.interview.basics.model.trie.TrieNode;
import com.interview.utils.Timer;
/**
* Problem Description:
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/746082/how-to-find-list-of-possible-words-from-a-letter-matrix-boggle-solver
*
*
* @author zouzhile
*
*/
public class BoggleSolver {
class State {
public final int row, column; // row and column index
public final String prefix; // the next prefix equals to (prefix + data[i][j])
public State(int row, int column, String prefix){
this.row = row; this.column = column; this.prefix = prefix;
}
}
private Trie trie;
public BoggleSolver(String dictionary) {
this.trie = new Trie();
this.buildTrie(dictionary);
}
public Set<String> findWords(char[][] data){
Set<String> words = new HashSet<String>();
for(int i = 0; i < data.length; i ++)
for(int j = 0; j < data[i].length; j ++)
words.addAll(this.findWords(data, i, j));
return words;
}
private Set<String> findWords(char[][] data, int i, int j){
Set<String> words = new HashSet<String>();
List<State> queue = new ArrayList<State>();
if(this.isInsideBound(data, i, j))
queue.add(new State(i, j, ""));
while(queue.size() > 0) {
State state = queue.remove(0);
String prefix = state.prefix + data[state.row][state.column];
TrieNode matchNode = this.trie.match(prefix);
if(matchNode != null) {
List<State> states = this.getStatesByAdjacentChars(data, state.row, state.column, prefix);
queue.addAll(states);
if(matchNode.isWord() && prefix.length() >= 3) {
words.add(prefix);
}
}
}
return words;
}
private List<State> getStatesByAdjacentChars(char[][] data, int currentRow, int currentColumn, String prefix){
List<State> states = new ArrayList<State>();
for(int rowDelta = -1; rowDelta <= 1; rowDelta ++)
for(int columnDelta = -1; columnDelta <= 1; columnDelta ++) {
int newRow = currentRow + rowDelta;
int newColumn = currentColumn + columnDelta;
if(this.isInsideBound(data, newRow, newColumn))
states.add(new State(newRow, newColumn, prefix));
}
return states;
}
private boolean isInsideBound(char[][] data, int i, int j){
boolean inbound = (i >= 0 && i < data.length) && (j >= 0 && j < data[i].length);
return inbound;
}
private void buildTrie(String dictionary){
BufferedReader reader = null;
try {
reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(dictionary));
String line = null;
while( (line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
String word = line.trim().toLowerCase();
this.trie.addWord(word);
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if(reader != null)
try {
reader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
String array = "djhi,klps,yeut,eorn";
//String array = "fxie,amlo,ewbx,astu";
String[] rows = array.split(",");
int rowsCount = rows.length;
int columnCount = rows[0].length();
char[][] data = new char[rowsCount][columnCount];
for(int i = 0; i < rowsCount; i ++)
for(int j = 0; j < columnCount; j ++)
data[i][j] = rows[i].charAt(j);
Timer timer = new Timer();
timer.start();
BoggleSolver solver = new BoggleSolver("./documents/dictionary");
timer.stop();
System.out.println("Trie build took " + timer);
timer.start();
Set<String> words = solver.findWords(data);
timer.stop();
System.out.println("Word binarysearch took " + timer);
TreeSet<String> sortedWords = new TreeSet<String>();
sortedWords.addAll(words);
int count = 0;
System.out.println();
for(String word : sortedWords) {
System.out.print(word + " ");
count ++;
if(count % 10 == 0)
System.out.println();
}
}
}
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