282. Expression Add Operators¶

Difficulty: Hard

282. Expression Add Operators

Hard

Given a string num that contains only digits and an integer target, return all possibilities to insert the binary operators '+', '-', and/or '*' between the digits of num so that the resultant expression evaluates to the target value.

Note that operands in the returned expressions should not contain leading zeros.

Example 1:

Input: num = "123", target = 6
Output: ["1*2*3","1+2+3"]
Explanation: Both "1*2*3" and "1+2+3" evaluate to 6.

Example 2:

Input: num = "232", target = 8
Output: ["2*3+2","2+3*2"]
Explanation: Both "2*3+2" and "2+3*2" evaluate to 8.

Example 3:

Input: num = "3456237490", target = 9191
Output: []
Explanation: There are no expressions that can be created from "3456237490" to evaluate to 9191.

Constraints:

1 <= num.length <= 10
num consists of only digits.
-2³¹ <= target <= 2³¹ - 1

Solution¶

public class Solution {
    public List<String> addOperators(String num, int target) {
        List<String> rst = new ArrayList<String>();
        if(num == null || num.length() == 0) return rst;
        helper(rst, "", num, target, 0, 0, 0);
        return rst;
    }
    public void helper(List<String> rst, String path, String num, int target, int pos, long eval, long multed){
        if(pos == num.length()){
            if(target == eval) rst.add(path);
            return;
        }
        for(int i = pos; i < num.length(); i++){
            if(i != pos && num.charAt(pos) == '0') break;
            long cur = Long.parseLong(num.substring(pos, i + 1));
            if(pos == 0) helper(rst, path + cur, num, target, i + 1, cur, cur);
            else{
                helper(rst, path + "+" + cur, num, target, i + 1, eval + cur , cur);
                helper(rst, path + "-" + cur, num, target, i + 1, eval -cur, -cur);
                helper(rst, path + "*" + cur, num, target, i + 1, eval - multed + multed * cur, multed * cur );
            }
        }
    }
}

Complexity Analysis¶

Time Complexity: O(?)
Space Complexity: O(?)

Approach¶

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