花花酱 LeetCode 1759. Count Number of Homogenous Substrings

Given a string s, return the number of homogenous substrings of s. Since the answer may be too large, return it modulo 109 + 7.

A string is homogenous if all the characters of the string are the same.

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.

Example 1:

Input: s = "abbcccaa"
Output: 13
Explanation: The homogenous substrings are listed as below:
"a"   appears 3 times.
"aa"  appears 1 time.
"b"   appears 2 times.
"bb"  appears 1 time.
"c"   appears 3 times.
"cc"  appears 2 times.
"ccc" appears 1 time.
3 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 13.

Example 2:

Input: s = "xy"
Output: 2
Explanation: The homogenous substrings are "x" and "y".

Example 3:

Input: s = "zzzzz"
Output: 15

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 105
• s consists of lowercase letters.

Solution: Counting

Let m be the length of the longest homogenous substring, # of homogenous substring is m * (m + 1) / 2.
e.g. aaabb
“aaa” => m = 3, # = 3 * (3 + 1) / 2 = 6
“bb” => m = 2, # = 2 * (2+1) / 2 = 3
Total = 6 + 3 = 9

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