Scramble String

一. Scramble String

Given a string s1, we may represent it as a binary tree by partitioning it to two non-empty substrings recursively.

Below is one possible representation of s1 = “great”:

    great
   /    \
  gr    eat
 / \    /  \
g   r  e   at
           / \
          a   t

To scramble the string, we may choose any non-leaf node and swap its two children.

For example, if we choose the node “gr” and swap its two children, it produces a scrambled string “rgeat”.

    rgeat
   /    \
  rg    eat
 / \    /  \
r   g  e   at
           / \
          a   t

We say that “rgeat” is a scrambled string of “great”.

Similarly, if we continue to swap the children of nodes “eat” and “at”, it produces a scrambled string “rgtae”.

    rgtae
   /    \
  rg    tae
 / \    /  \
r   g  ta  e
       / \
      t   a

We say that “rgtae” is a scrambled string of “great”.

Given two strings s1 and s2 of the same length, determine if s2 is a scrambled string of s1.

Difficulty:Hard

TIME：36MIN

解法（深度优先搜索）

一开始看到这道题以为很难，其实仔细思考了一下，发现也并不是特别难。

既然是一个树形结构，那么当然很容易就想到了递归。这道题的关键在于翻转，可以翻转一次，当然也可以翻转两次。翻转两次后就和原字符串等价了。

比如对于字符串great，如果我拆分成gr和eat两个字符串，那么我可以翻转一次变为eatgr，也可以此翻转两次变成great，所以要分两种情况考虑。

bool isScramble(string s1, string s2) {
    string t1 = s1;
    string t2 = s2;
    sort(t1.begin(), t1.end()); //如果字符串很长可以改为计数排序
    sort(t2.begin(), t2.end());
    if(t1 != t2)
        return false;
    int len = s1.size();
    if(len <= 3) //长度小于等于3而且字符相同，必定可以通过翻转得到
        return true;
    for(int i = 1; i < len; i++) {
        /*假设翻转一次*/
        if(isScramble(s1.substr(0, i), s2.substr(len - i)) && isScramble(s1.substr(i), s2.substr(0, len - i)))
            return true;
        /*假设翻转两次*/
        if(isScramble(s1.substr(0, i), s2.substr(0, i)) && isScramble(s1.substr(i), s2.substr(i)))
            return true;
    }
    return false;
}

代码的时间复杂度小于O(n!) 。

优化（带备忘的深度优先搜索）

其实仔细看一下代码，就可以发现我们重复计算了很多之前已经计算过的值。因此，我们可以采用带备忘的深度优先搜索来提升代码的运行效率。

具体做法是采用一个map来记录两个子串的求值结果。

bool isScramble(string s1, string s2) {
    unordered_map<string, bool> m; //用来记录两个子串是否出现过
    return isScramble(s1, s2, m);
}
bool isScramble(string s1, string s2, unordered_map<string, bool> &m) {
    int len = s1.size();
    bool result = false;
    if(len == 0)
        return true;
    else if(len == 1)
        return s1 == s2;
    else if(m.find(s1 + s2) != m.end())
        return m[s1 + s2];
    result = s1 == s2;
    for (int k = 1; k < len && !result; k++) {
        result = result || isScramble(s1.substr(0, k), s2.substr(len - k), m) && isScramble(s1.substr(k), s2.substr(0, len - k), m);
        result = result || isScramble(s1.substr(0, k), s2.substr(0, k), m) && isScramble(s1.substr(k), s2.substr(k), m);
    }
    m[s1 + s2] = result;
    return m[s1 + s2];
}

代码的时间复杂度约为O(n4) 。