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花花酱 LeetCode 1585. Check If String Is Transformable With Substring Sort Operations

Given two strings s and t, you want to transform string s into string t using the following operation any number of times:

  • Choose a non-empty substring in s and sort it in-place so the characters are in ascending order.

For example, applying the operation on the underlined substring in "14234" results in "12344".

Return true if it is possible to transform string s into string t. Otherwise, return false.

substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.

Example 1:

Input: s = "84532", t = "34852"
Output: true
Explanation: You can transform s into t using the following sort operations:
"84532" (from index 2 to 3) -> "84352"
"84352" (from index 0 to 2) -> "34852"

Example 2:

Input: s = "34521", t = "23415"
Output: true
Explanation: You can transform s into t using the following sort operations:
"34521" -> "23451"
"23451" -> "23415"

Example 3:

Input: s = "12345", t = "12435"
Output: false

Example 4:

Input: s = "1", t = "2"
Output: false

Constraints:

  • s.length == t.length
  • 1 <= s.length <= 105
  • s and t only contain digits from '0' to '9'.

Solution: Queue

We can move a smaller digit from right to left by sorting two adjacent digits.
e.g. 18572 -> 18527 -> 18257 -> 12857, but we can not move a larger to the left of a smaller one.

Thus, for each digit in the target string, we find the first occurrence of it in s, and try to move it to the front by checking if there is any smaller one in front of it.

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

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