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花花酱 LeetCode 1737. Change Minimum Characters to Satisfy One of Three Conditions

By zxi on January 23, 2021

You are given two strings a and b that consist of lowercase letters. In one operation, you can change any character in a or b to any lowercase letter.

Your goal is to satisfy one of the following three conditions:

Every letter in a is strictly less than every letter in b in the alphabet.
Every letter in b is strictly less than every letter in a in the alphabet.
Both a and b consist of only one distinct letter.

Return the minimum number of operations needed to achieve your goal.

Example 1:

Input: a = "aba", b = "caa"
Output: 2
Explanation: Consider the best way to make each condition true:
1) Change b to "ccc" in 2 operations, then every letter in a is less than every letter in b.
2) Change a to "bbb" and b to "aaa" in 3 operations, then every letter in b is less than every letter in a.
3) Change a to "aaa" and b to "aaa" in 2 operations, then a and b consist of one distinct letter.
The best way was done in 2 operations (either condition 1 or condition 3).

Example 2:

Input: a = "dabadd", b = "cda"
Output: 3
Explanation: The best way is to make condition 1 true by changing b to "eee".

Constraints:

1 <= a.length, b.length <= 10⁵
a and b consist only of lowercase letters.

Solution: Brute Force

Time complexity: O(26*(m+n))
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int minCharacters(string a, string b) {

auto change = [](const string& a, const string& b) {

int ans = INT_MAX;

for (char c = 'a'; c < 'z'; ++c) {

int ops = 0;

for (char x : a) ops += x > c;

for (char x : b) ops += x <= c;

ans = min(ans, ops);

}

return ans;

};

int ans = min(change(a, b), change(b, a));

for (char c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; ++c) {

int ops = a.size() - count(begin(a), end(a), c) +

b.size() - count(begin(b), end(b), c);

ans = min(ans, ops);

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1736. Latest Time by Replacing Hidden Digits

By zxi on January 23, 2021

You are given a string time in the form of hh:mm, where some of the digits in the string are hidden (represented by ?).

The valid times are those inclusively between 00:00 and 23:59.

Return the latest valid time you can get from time by replacing the hidden digits.

Example 1:

Input: time = "2?:?0"
Output: "23:50"
Explanation: The latest hour beginning with the digit '2' is 23 and the latest minute ending with the digit '0' is 50.

Example 2:

Input: time = "0?:3?"
Output: "09:39"

Example 3:

Input: time = "1?:22"
Output: "19:22"

Constraints:

time is in the format hh:mm.
It is guaranteed that you can produce a valid time from the given string.

Solution 1: Brute Force

Enumerate all possible clock in reverse order and find the first matching one.

Time complexity: O(1)
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

string maximumTime(string time) {

for (int m = 60 * 24 - 1; m >= 0; --m) {

int hh = m / 60;

int mm = m % 60;

if (time[0] != '?' && time[0] - '0' != hh / 10) continue;

if (time[1] != '?' && time[1] - '0' != hh % 10) continue;

if (time[3] != '?' && time[3] - '0' != mm / 10) continue;

if (time[4] != '?' && time[4] - '0' != mm % 10) continue;

time[0] = (hh / 10) + '0';

time[1] = (hh % 10) + '0';

time[3] = (mm / 10) + '0';

time[4] = (mm % 10) + '0';

break;

}

return time;

}

};

Solution 2: Rules

Using rules, fill from left to right.

Time complexity: O(1)
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

string maximumTime(string time) {

if (time[0] == '?') time[0] = time[1] >= '4' && time[1] <= '9' ? '1' : '2';

if (time[1] == '?') time[1] = time[0] == '2' ? '3' : '9';

if (time[3] == '?') time[3] = '5';

if (time[4] == '?') time[4] = '9';

return time;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1704. Determine if String Halves Are Alike

By zxi on December 27, 2020

You are given a string s of even length. Split this string into two halves of equal lengths, and let a be the first half and b be the second half.

Two strings are alike if they have the same number of vowels ('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U'). Notice that s contains uppercase and lowercase letters.

Return true if a and b are alike. Otherwise, return false.

Example 1:

Input: s = "book"
Output: true
Explanation: a = "bo" and b = "ok". a has 1 vowel and b has 1 vowel. Therefore, they are alike.

Example 2:

Input: s = "textbook"
Output: false
Explanation: a = "text" and b = "book". a has 1 vowel whereas b has 2. Therefore, they are not alike.
Notice that the vowel o is counted twice.

Example 3:

Input: s = "MerryChristmas"
Output: false

Example 4:

Input: s = "AbCdEfGh"
Output: true

Constraints:

2 <= s.length <= 1000
s.length is even.
s consists of uppercase and lowercase letters.

Solution: Counting

Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(1)

Python3

# Author: Huahua

class Solution:

def halvesAreAlike(self, s: str) -> bool:

def count(s: str) -> int:

return sum(c in 'aeiouAEIOU' for c in s)

n = len(s)

return count(s[:n//2]) == count(s[n//2:])

花花酱 LeetCode 1694. Reformat Phone Number

By zxi on December 20, 2020

You are given a phone number as a string number. number consists of digits, spaces ' ', and/or dashes '-'.

You would like to reformat the phone number in a certain manner. Firstly, remove all spaces and dashes. Then, group the digits from left to right into blocks of length 3 until there are 4 or fewer digits. The final digits are then grouped as follows:

2 digits: A single block of length 2.
3 digits: A single block of length 3.
4 digits: Two blocks of length 2 each.

The blocks are then joined by dashes. Notice that the reformatting process should never produce any blocks of length 1 and produce at most two blocks of length 2.

Return the phone number after formatting.

Example 1:

Input: number = "1-23-45 6"
Output: "123-456"
Explanation: The digits are "123456".
Step 1: There are more than 4 digits, so group the next 3 digits. The 1st block is "123".
Step 2: There are 3 digits remaining, so put them in a single block of length 3. The 2nd block is "456".
Joining the blocks gives "123-456".

Example 2:

Input: number = "123 4-567"
Output: "123-45-67"
Explanation: The digits are "1234567".
Step 1: There are more than 4 digits, so group the next 3 digits. The 1st block is "123".
Step 2: There are 4 digits left, so split them into two blocks of length 2. The blocks are "45" and "67".
Joining the blocks gives "123-45-67".

Example 3:

Input: number = "123 4-5678"
Output: "123-456-78"
Explanation: The digits are "12345678".
Step 1: The 1st block is "123".
Step 2: The 2nd block is "456".
Step 3: There are 2 digits left, so put them in a single block of length 2. The 3rd block is "78".
Joining the blocks gives "123-456-78".

Example 4:

Input: number = "12"
Output: "12"

Example 5:

Input: number = "--17-5 229 35-39475 "
Output: "175-229-353-94-75"

Constraints:

2 <= number.length <= 100
number consists of digits and the characters '-' and ' '.
There are at least two digits in number.

Solution:

Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

string reformatNumber(string number) {

string ans;

const int total = count_if(begin(number), end(number),

[](char c) { return isdigit(c); });

int l = 0;

for (char c : number) {

if (!isdigit(c)) continue;

ans += c;

++l;

if ((l % 3 == 0 && total - l >= 4) ||

(total % 3 != 0 && total - l == 2)

|| (total % 3 == 0 && total - l == 3))

ans += "-";

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1678. Goal Parser Interpretation

By zxi on December 5, 2020

You own a Goal Parser that can interpret a string command. The command consists of an alphabet of "G", "()" and/or "(al)" in some order. The Goal Parser will interpret "G" as the string "G", "()" as the string "o", and "(al)" as the string "al". The interpreted strings are then concatenated in the original order.

Given the string command, return the Goal Parser‘s interpretation of command.

Example 1:

Input: command = "G()(al)"
Output: "Goal"
Explanation: The Goal Parser interprets the command as follows:
G -> G
() -> o
(al) -> al
The final concatenated result is "Goal".

Example 2:

Input: command = "G()()()()(al)"
Output: "Gooooal"

Example 3:

Input: command = "(al)G(al)()()G"
Output: "alGalooG"

Constraints:

1 <= command.length <= 100
command consists of "G", "()", and/or "(al)" in some order.

Solution: String

If we encounter ‘(‘ check the next character to determine whether it’s ‘()’ or ‘(al’)

Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(n)

C++

class Solution {

public:

string interpret(string command) {

string ans;

for (int i = 0; i < command.size(); ++i) {

if (command[i] == 'G') ans += "G";

else if (command[i] == '(') {

if (command[i + 1] == ')') ans += "o";

else ans += "al";

}

return ans;

}

};

Python3

class Solution:

def interpret(self, command: str) -> str:

ans = []

for i, c in enumerate(command):

if c == 'G': ans.append('G')

elif c == '(':

ans.append('o' if command[i + 1] == ')' else 'al')

return ''.join(ans)