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Word Break II

Problem statement

Given a string s and a dictionary of strings wordDict, add spaces in s to construct a sentence where each word is a valid dictionary word. Return all such possible sentences in any order.

Note that the same word in the dictionary may be reused multiple times in the segmentation.

Example 1:

Input: s = "catsanddog", wordDict = ["cat","cats","and","sand","dog"]Output: ["cats and dog","cat sand dog"]

Example 2:

Input: s = "pineapplepenapple", wordDict = ["apple","pen","applepen","pine","pineapple"]Output: ["pine apple pen apple","pineapple pen apple","pine applepen apple"]Explanation: Note that you are allowed to reuse a dictionary word.

Example 3:

Input: s = "catsandog", wordDict = ["cats","dog","sand","and","cat"]Output: []

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 20
  • 1 <= wordDict.length <= 1000
  • 1 <= wordDict[i].length <= 10
  • s and wordDict[i] consist of only lowercase English letters.
  • All the strings of wordDict are unique.

My solution

/**
* @param {string} s
* @param {string[]} wordDict
* @return {string[]}
*/
var wordBreak = function(s, wordDict) {
const dict = new Set(wordDict)
const memo = new Map();

function dfs(start) {
if (start > s.length - 1) {
return [[]]
}

if (memo.has(start)) {
return memo.get(start)
}

let localResult = []

for (let end = start + 1; end <= s.length; end++) {
const word = s.substring(start, end)

if (dict.has(word)) {
let nextWords = dfs(end)

for (const next of nextWords) {
localResult.push([word, ...next])
}
}
}

memo.set(start, localResult)
return localResult;
}

const result = dfs(0)

return result.reduce((acc, curr) => {
acc.push(curr.join(" "))
return acc;
}, [])
};