[Leetcode] 271. Encode and Decode Strings 解题报告

题目：

Design an algorithm to encode a list of strings to a string. The encoded string is then sent over the network and is decoded back to the original list of strings.

Machine 1 (sender) has the function:

string encode(vector<string> strs) {  // ... your code  return encoded_string;}

Machine 2 (receiver) has the function:

vector<string> decode(string s) {  //... your code  return strs;}

So Machine 1 does:

string encoded_string = encode(strs);

and Machine 2 does:

vector<string> strs2 = decode(encoded_string);

strs2 in Machine 2 should be the same as strs in Machine 1.

Implement the encode and decode methods.

Note:

• The string may contain any possible characters out of 256 valid ascii characters. Your algorithm should be generalized enough to work on any possible characters.
• Do not use class member/global/static variables to store states. Your encode and decode algorithms should be stateless.
• Do not rely on any library method such as eval or serialize methods. You should implement your own encode/decode algorithm.

思路：

对于每个字符串，我们首先encode它的长度，但是如果长度大于9，则会有多个解析的可能，所以我们特地在长度之后加一个特殊符号用来表示长度字符串的结束，接着才真正encode字符串。decode的过程和这个刚好相反。这种方法只是一种encode和decode字符串的一种方式，应该还会有其它方式的。

代码：

class Codec {public:    // Encodes a list of strings to a single string.    string encode(vector<string>& strs) {        string ret;        for(int i = 0; i < strs.size(); ++i) {            ret += to_string(strs[i].length());            ret += "#";            ret += strs[i];        }        return ret;    }    // Decodes a single string to a list of strings.    vector<string> decode(string s) {        vector<string> ret;        int start = 0;        while(start < s.length()) {            int end = start;            while(s[end] != '#') {                end++;            }            int length = stoi(s.substr(start, end - start));            ret.push_back(s.substr(end + 1, length));            start = end + 1 + length;        }        return ret;    }};// Your Codec object will be instantiated and called as such:// Codec codec;// codec.decode(codec.encode(strs));