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Leetcode Problem 17. Letter Combinations of a Phone Number

17. Letter Combinations of a Phone Number

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Backtracking Approach for Letter Combinations of a Phone Number

  1. If the input string is empty, return an empty list as there are no combinations to generate.
  2. Create a mapping of digits to their corresponding letters.
  3. Define a backtracking function that takes the current combination of letters and the next index of the digit to process.
    • If the current combination has a length equal to the length of the input string, add it to the result list and return.
    • Otherwise, iterate over the letters corresponding to the current digit.
    • For each letter, add it to the current combination and call the backtracking function with the updated combination and the next index.
    • After exploring with the added letter, backtrack by removing the letter from the current combination.
  4. Call the backtracking function with an empty initial combination and index 0 to start the process.
  5. Return the list of generated combinations.
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