22. generate parentheses

Given n pairs of parentheses, write a function to generate all combinations of well-formed parentheses.

For example, given n = 3, a solution set is:

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[
"((()))",
"(()())",
"(())()",
"()(())",
"()()()"
]

给定n个小括号,写一个方法生成所有可行的括号路径

分析:典型的卡特兰数问题,知道卡特兰数的实现原理,代码就比较好理解了,详细代码如下:

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class  {
public List<String> generateParenthesis(int n) {
List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
List<String> list0 = new ArrayList<>();
List<String> list1 = new ArrayList<>();
String s0 = "";
String s1 = "()";
list0.add(s0);
list1.add(s1);
if (n == 0) return list0;
if (n == 1) return list1;
for (int i = 0; i <= n-1; i++) {

List<String> leftP = generateParenthesis(i);
List<String> rightP = generateParenthesis(n-1-i);
for (String eLeft: leftP) {
for (String eRight: rightP) {
list.add("(" + eLeft + ")" + eRight);
}
}
}
return list;
}
}