804. Unique Morse Code Words

Question

International Morse Code defines a standard encoding where each letter is mapped to a series of dots and dashes, as follows:

• 'a' maps to ".-",
• 'b' maps to "-...",
• 'c' maps to "-.-.", and so on.

For convenience, the full table for the 26 letters of the English alphabet is given below:

[".-","-...","-.-.","-..",".","..-.","--.","....","..",".---","-.-",".-..","--","-.","---",".--.","--.-",".-.","...","-","..-","...-",".--","-..-","-.--","--.."]

Given an array of strings words where each word can be written as a concatenation of the Morse code of each letter.

• For example, "cab" can be written as "-.-..--...", which is the concatenation of "-.-.", ".-", and "-...". We will call such a concatenation the transformation of a word.

Return the number of different transformations among all words we have.

Solution

Code

class Solution {
    public int uniqueMorseRepresentations(String[] words) {
        String[] alphabet = new String[]{".-","-...","-.-.","-..",".","..-.","--.",
                                         "....","..",".---","-.-",".-..","--","-.",
                                         "---",".--.","--.-",".-.","...","-","..-",
                                         "...-",".--","-..-","-.--","--.."};
        HashSet<String> set = new HashSet<>();
        
        for(String word : words){
            StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
            for(char c : word.toCharArray()){
                sb.append(alphabet[c - 'a']);
            }
            set.add(sb.toString());
        }
        
        return set.size();
    }
}