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91. Decode Ways A message containing letters from A-Z is being encoded to numbers using the following mapping: 'A' -> 1 'B' -> 2 ... 'Z' -> 26 Given an encoded message containing digits, determine the total number of ways to decode it. For example, Given encoded message "12", it could be decoded as "AB" (1 2) or "L" (12). The number of ways decoding "12" is 2. public class Solution { public int numDecodings(String s) { if(s==null || s.length()==0 || s.charAt(0)=='0') return 0; if(s.length()==1) return 1; int[] res = new int[s.length()]; res[0] = 1; res[1] = check(s.charAt(1)) + check(s.charAt(0), s.charAt(1)); for(int i=2; i=3 digits or more, the number is 1) the first digit starts with 0, decodeWays=0; 2) the first two digits are from 11 to 19 or 21 to 26 decodeWays(x)=decodeWays(1 digit after x) + decodeWays(2 digits after x) 3) the first two digits are others decodeWays(x)=decodeWays(1 digit after x) After considering these trivial cases, you can start coding. But, keep in mind that the recursion call is very expensive. I tried the first time using recursion, then the time limit exceeded. Then I use DP to store the intermediate decodeWays. Keeping these values, recursion is avoided. */ public class Solution { public int numDecodings(String s) { if(s.length()<1) return 0; char[] str = s.toCharArray(); int[] decodeWays = new int[str.length]; int last = str.length - 1; if(str[last]-'0'==0) decodeWays[last] = 0; else decodeWays[last] = 1; if(last>=1) { if(str[last-1]-'0'>2) { if(str[last]-'0'==0) decodeWays[last-1]=0; else decodeWays[last-1]=1; } else if(str[last-1]-'0'==2) { if(str[last]-'0'>6) decodeWays[last-1]=1; else if(str[last]-'0'==0) decodeWays[last-1]=1; else decodeWays[last-1]=2; } else if(str[last-1]-'0'==1) { if(str[last]-'0'==0) decodeWays[last-1]=1; else decodeWays[last-1]=2; } else { decodeWays[last-1]=0; } } if(last>=2) { for(int i=last-2;i>=0;i--) { if(str[i]-'0'==0) decodeWays[i]=0; else { int ways=0; if(str[i]-'0'<2||(str[i]-'0'==2 && str[i+1]-'0'<=6)) ways=1; decodeWays[i]=decodeWays[i+1]+ways*decodeWays[i+2]; } } } return decodeWays[0]; } } //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// public class Solution { public int numDecodings(String s) { if(s.length()==0) return 0; int[] hist = new int[2]; hist[0] = 1; hist[1] = 1; for(int i=0; i0) { int a = Integer.parseInt(s.substring(i-1, i+1)); if(s.charAt(i-1)!='0' && a<=26 && a>=1) temp += hist[0]; } hist[0] = hist[1]; hist[1] = temp; } return hist[1]; } }