I am following a tutorial on Dynamic Programming on youtube to understand more about Recursive functions, and I am stuck where a spread operator is used.
Code in JavaScript
const howSum = (targetSum, numbers) =>{ if(targetSum === 0) return []; if(targetSum < 0) return null; for(let num of numbers){ const remainder = targetSum - num; const remainderResult = howSum(remainder, numbers); if(remainderResult != null){ return [...remainderResult, num]; } } return null; };
This is the code in C# where I’m trying to replicate the function
class HowSumSlow { static dynamic HowSum(int targetSum, int[] numbers) { if (targetSum == 0) return numbers; if (targetSum < 0) return null; foreach( var num in numbers){ var remainder = targetSum - num; int[] remainderResult = HowSum(remainder, numbers); if (remainderResult != null) { //Code here// } } return null; } static void Main(string[] arg) { int[] numbers = new int[] { 2, 3 }; Console.WriteLine(HowSum(7, numbers)); } }
EDIT: Should I use a Dictionary and use a key? I don’t understand how to work my way around this one.
static Dictionary<int, int[]> spread = new Dictionary<int, int[]>(); static dynamic HowSum(int targetSum, int[] numbers){ ... if(spread.ContainsKey(remainderResult)){ return spread[remainderResult]; } }
EDIT:
class HowSumSlow { static int[] HowSum(int targetSum, int[] numbers) { int[] empty = new int[] { }; if (targetSum == 0) return empty; if (targetSum < 0) return null; foreach( var num in numbers){ var remainder = targetSum - num; int[] remainderResult = HowSum(remainder, numbers); if (remainderResult != null){ return remainderResult.Append(num).ToArray(); } } return null; } static void Main(string[] arg) { int[] numbers = new int[] { 2, 3, 5 }; Console.WriteLine(String.Join(",", HowSum(8, numbers))); } }
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Answer
There is no spread operator in c#, you could use the Append
method in the System.Linq
namespace. As this returns an IEnumerable<T>
you’ll also need to call ToArray()
afterwards.
This line in JS
return [...remainderResult, num];
Could be the following in c#
return remainderResult.Append(num).ToArray();
Note that your method always returns int[]
or null, so the return type should be int[]
not dynamic
!