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Recursive practice - flatten dictionary - Issue is related to time complexity and space complexity analysis
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using System; | |
using System.Collections.Generic; | |
class Solution | |
{ | |
public static Dictionary<string, string> FlattenDictionary(Dictionary<string, object> dict) | |
{ | |
if(dict == null || dict.Count == 0) | |
{ | |
return new Dictionary<string, string>(); | |
} | |
var flatten = new Dictionary<string, string>(); | |
FlattenDictionaryHelper(dict, "", flatten); | |
return flatten; | |
} | |
/// recursive function | |
private static void FlattenDictionaryHelper(Dictionary<string, object> dict, string prefix, Dictionary<string, string> flatten ) | |
{ | |
foreach(var pair in dict) // ("Key1", "1") "Key2", Dictionary | |
{ | |
string key = pair.Key; // "Key1", "Key2" | |
Object value = pair.Value; //"1" // dictionary | |
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16956903/determine-if-type-is-dictionary | |
string newPrefix = (prefix.Length == 0)? key : ((key.Length == 0)? prefix : (prefix + "." + key)); // "Key1" | |
var isDictionary = value.GetType() == typeof(Dictionary<string, object>); | |
if(!isDictionary) | |
{ | |
flatten.Add(newPrefix, (string)value); // ("Key1", "1") | |
} | |
else | |
{ | |
FlattenDictionaryHelper((Dictionary<string, object>)value, newPrefix, flatten); // | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
static void Main(string[] args) | |
{ | |
} | |
} | |
// "Key1" -> key, value type -> string 1, "1" | |
// "Kye2" , value type -> GetType -> Dictionary -> DFS-> recursive -> pass extra argument | |
// Key2 -> prefix | |
// prefix is empty? key : (key is empty)? prefix : (prefix +"." + key) | |
// |
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