1138. Alphabet Board Path

https://leetcode.com/problems/alphabet-board-path

Description

On an alphabet board, we start at position (0, 0), corresponding to character board[0][0].

Here, board = ["abcde", "fghij", "klmno", "pqrst", "uvwxy", "z"], as shown in the diagram below.

We may make the following moves:

  • 'U' moves our position up one row, if the position exists on the board;

  • 'D' moves our position down one row, if the position exists on the board;

  • 'L' moves our position left one column, if the position exists on the board;

  • 'R' moves our position right one column, if the position exists on the board;

  • '!' adds the character board[r][c] at our current position (r, c) to the answer.

(Here, the only positions that exist on the board are positions with letters on them.)

Return a sequence of moves that makes our answer equal to target in the minimum number of moves. You may return any path that does so.

Example 1:

**Input:** target = "leet"
**Output:** "DDR!UURRR!!DDD!"

Example 2:

**Input:** target = "code"
**Output:** "RR!DDRR!UUL!R!"

Constraints:

  • 1 <= target.length <= 100

  • target consists only of English lowercase letters.

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