Recursively print all sentences that can be formed from list of word lists in C++

Given a list of words. The goal is to create all possible sentences that can be formed by taking words from the list using a recursive approach. You can only take one word at a time from both the lists.

Let us see various input output scenarios for this

Input −

sentence[row][col] = {{"I", "You"},
   {"Do", "do not like"},
   {"walking", "eating"}}

Output   −

I Do walking
I Do eating
I like walking
I like eating
You Do walking
You Do eating
You like walking
You like eating

Explanation − Taking one word from each list in sentence[0-2] gives above sentences.

Input −

sentence[row][col] = {{"work", "live"},{"easy", "happily"}}

Output −

work easy
work happily
live easy
live happily

Explanation − Taking one word from each list in sentence[0-1] gives above sentences.

• Declare a 2-D array of string type as sentence[row][col]. Pass the data to the function as Recursive_Print(sentence).

• Inside the function as Recursive_Print(sentence)

  • Create an array of type string as arr[row].

  • Start loop FOR from i to 0 till i is less than col. Inside the loop, check IF sentence[0][i] is not empty then make a call to the function as Recursion(sentence, 0, i, arr).

• Inside the function as Recursion(string sentence[row][col], int temp_1, int temp_2, string arr[row])

  • Set arr[temp_1] to sentence[temp_1][temp_2].

  • Check IF temp_1 is row - 1 then start loop FOR from i to 0 till i less than row. Inside the loop, print arr[i].

  • Start loop FOR from i to 0 till i is less than col. Inside the loop, check IF sentence[temp_1+1][i] is not equal to space then make a recursive call to the function as Recursion(sentence, temp_1+1, i, arr).

• Print the result.

Approach used in the below program is as follows

Example

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
#define row 3
#define col 3
using namespace std;
void Recursion(string sentence[row][col], int temp_1, int temp_2, string arr[row]){
   arr[temp_1] = sentence[temp_1][temp_2];
   if(temp_1 == row - 1){
      for(int i=0; i < row; i++){
         cout << arr[i] << " ";
      }
      cout << endl;
      return;
   }
   for(int i=0; i < col; i++){
      if(sentence[temp_1+1][i] != ""){
         Recursion(sentence, temp_1+1, i, arr);
      }
   }
}
void Recursive_Print(string sentence[row][col]){
   string arr[row];
   for(int i=0; i < col; i++){
      if(sentence[0][i] != ""){
         Recursion(sentence, 0, i, arr);
      }
   }
}
int main(){
   string sentence[row][col] = {{"Ajay", "sanjay"},{"Like", "is"},{"Reading", "eating"}};
   Recursive_Print(sentence);
   return 0;
}

Output

If we run the above code it will generate the following Output

Ajay Like Reading
Ajay Like eating
Ajay is Reading
Ajay is eating
sanjay Like Reading
sanjay Like eating
sanjay is Reading
sanjay is eating