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Phone to letter translation

Phone keypads and rotary dials have little letters on them. Most numbers translate into letters. Of course, with only 10 digits, but 26 letters, there is a problem: the translation from letters to numbers is lossy. When translating from numbers to letters, there is always more than one possible interpretation.

Write a function that takes a string of digits and returns a collection of the possible strings of letters it corresponds to.

Examples

(digits->letters "22") ;=> ["aa" "ab" "ac" "ba" "bb" "bc" "ca" "cb" "cc"]

Here are the mappings you should use:

1: no letters
2: abc
3: def
4: ghi
5: jkl
6: mno
7: pqrs
8: tuv
9: wxyz
0: space

If a character appears in the input that does not have a mapping, it will appear in the output untranslated.

Thanks to this site for the problem idea, where it is rated Expert in JavaScript. The problem has been modified.

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There are 3 steps here:

1. deconstruct a digit string into a list of letters.
2. do a permutation on lists.
3. construct strings from lists.

(def dict {
           :1 [""]
           :2 ["a" "b" "c"]
           :3 ["d" "e" "f"]
           :4 ["g" "h" "i"]
           :5 ["j" "k" "l"]
           :6 ["m" "n" "o"]
           :7 ["p" "q" "r" "s"]
           :8 ["t" "u" "v"]
           :9 ["w" "x" "y" "z"]
           :0 [" "]
           })

(defn letter->list [letter]
  ((keyword letter) dict))

(defn string->list [s]
  (str/split s #""))

(defn get-letters [digits]
  (map letter->list (string->list digits)))

(defn add1 [letter letters]
  (map #(list letter %)  letters))

(defn permutate2 [l1 l2]
  (mapcat #(add1 % l2) l1))

(defn msg [s l]
  (print (str s ": ")) (clojure.pprint/pprint l))

(defn permutate [letters]
  (cond
    (< (count letters) 2) letters
    (= (count letters) 2) (permutate2 (first letters) (second letters))
    :else (permutate2 (first letters) (permutate (rest letters)))))

(defn list->string [permutted]
  (map clojure.string/join
       (map flatten permutted)))

(defn digits->letters [digits]
  (list->string (permutate (get-letters digits))))

(def dial {\1 "1", \2 "abc", \3 "def", \4 "ghi", \5 "jkl", \6 "mno", 
           \7 "pqrs", \8 "tuv", \9 "wxyz", \0 " "})

(defn digits->letters [digits]
  (map 
   (partial apply str)
   (loop [digs (-> digits reverse rest),
          acc  (->> digits last dial
                    (map list))]
     (if (empty? digs)
       acc
       (recur (rest digs) 
              (->> (dial (first digs))
                   (mapcat (fn [ltr]
                             (->> acc
                                  (map #(conj % ltr)))))))))))