Code RoomPhone keypad letters
MediumPrep Room Coding #366

Phone keypad letters

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~18 min

Given a string of digits 2-9, return all letter strings the number could spell on a classic phone keypad (2->abc, 3->def, ..., 9->wxyz). Return the list sorted lexicographically; an empty input yields an empty list. The input has at most 6 digits.

Implement
letter_combinations(digits: str) → list[str]
Examples
in["23"]out["ad","ae","af","bd","be","bf","cd","ce","cf"]
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
["23"]["ad","ae","af","bd","be","bf","cd","ce","cf"]not run yetsample