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Take a look at this problem this way:

For instance take a look at 3rd case: ababab [4, 2]
The possible outcomes are 111100, 111001.......(just replace 1 at ith position with char[i]), we get abab, abaa.......

If you see all we need to do is find all the anagrams of 111100 (and the word here has repeated characters).

An example solving of such anagram can be [consider aabc] and we already have anagrams of abc (i.e. abc, acb, bac, cab, bca, cba) and we need to now merge a into these 6 guys (to get anagrams of aabc)

This can be done as: _a_bc, _a_cb, _b_ac, _ba_c...........
When doing this, if we check if last character of 1st substring or first character of last substring is same as character to be merged then we get a duplicate case. For all other cases, merge the character as normal.

The same principle can be applied to the problem above

- ashu February 19, 2012 | Flag Reply


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