RUST GYM v0.2.4

269. Alien Dictionary

There is a new alien language that uses the English alphabet. However, the order among letters are unknown to you.

You are given a list of strings words from the dictionary, where words are sorted lexicographically by the rules of this new language.

Derive the order of letters in this language, and return it. If the given input is invalid, return "". If there are multiple valid solutions, return any of them.

 

Example 1:

Input: words = ["wrt","wrf","er","ett","rftt"]
Output: "wertf"

Example 2:

Input: words = ["z","x"]
Output: "zx"

Example 3:

Input: words = ["z","x","z"]
Output: ""
Explanation: The order is invalid, so return "".

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= words.length <= 100
  • 1 <= words[i].length <= 100
  • words[i] consists of only lowercase English letters.

Rust Solution

struct Solution;
use std::collections::VecDeque;

impl Solution {
    fn alien_order(words: Vec<String>) -> String {
        let mut alphabet = vec![false; 256];
        for s in words.iter() {
            for b in s.chars() {
                alphabet[b as usize] = true;
            }
        }
        let k: usize = alphabet.iter().map(|&b| if b { 1 } else { 0 }).sum();
        let mut edges: Vec<Vec<u8>> = vec![vec![]; 256];
        for w in words.windows(2) {
            if w[0] == w[1] {
                continue;
            }
            if w[0].starts_with(&w[1]) {
                return "".to_string();
            }
            if let Some((t, h)) = w[0]
                .bytes()
                .zip(w[1].bytes())
                .skip_while(|(t, h)| t == h)
                .take(1)
                .next()
            {
                edges[t as usize].push(h);
            }
        }
        let mut indegree: Vec<usize> = vec![0; 256];
        for i in 0..256 {
            for &h in &edges[i] {
                indegree[h as usize] += 1;
            }
        }
        let mut queue: VecDeque<u8> = VecDeque::new();
        for i in 0..256 {
            if alphabet[i] && indegree[i] == 0 {
                queue.push_back(i as u8);
            }
        }

        let mut res = "".to_string();
        while let Some(t) = queue.pop_front() {
            res.push(t as char);
            let n = edges[t as usize].len();
            for i in 0..n {
                let h = edges[t as usize][i];
                indegree[h as usize] -= 1;
                if indegree[h as usize] == 0 {
                    queue.push_back(h);
                }
            }
        }
        if k == res.len() {
            res
        } else {
            "".to_string()
        }
    }
}

#[test]
fn test() {
    let words = vec_string!["wrt", "wrf", "er", "ett", "rftt"];
    let res = "wertf".to_string();
    assert_eq!(Solution::alien_order(words), res);
    let words = vec_string!["z", "x"];
    let res = "zx".to_string();
    assert_eq!(Solution::alien_order(words), res);
    let words = vec_string!["z", "x", "z"];
    let res = "".to_string();
    assert_eq!(Solution::alien_order(words), res);
    let words = vec_string!["abc", "ab"];
    let res = "".to_string();
    assert_eq!(Solution::alien_order(words), res);
}

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