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花花酱 LeetCode 2000. Reverse Prefix of Word

By zxi on November 20, 2021

Given a 0-indexed string word and a character ch, reverse the segment of word that starts at index 0 and ends at the index of the first occurrence of ch (inclusive). If the character ch does not exist in word, do nothing.

For example, if word = "abcdefd" and ch = "d", then you should reverse the segment that starts at 0 and ends at 3 (inclusive). The resulting string will be "dcbaefd".

Return the resulting string.

Example 1:

Input: word = "abcdefd", ch = "d"
Output: "dcbaefd"
Explanation: The first occurrence of "d" is at index 3. 
Reverse the part of word from 0 to 3 (inclusive), the resulting string is "dcbaefd".

Example 2:

Input: word = "xyxzxe", ch = "z"
Output: "zxyxxe"
Explanation: The first and only occurrence of "z" is at index 3.
Reverse the part of word from 0 to 3 (inclusive), the resulting string is "zxyxxe".

Example 3:

Input: word = "abcd", ch = "z"
Output: "abcd"
Explanation: "z" does not exist in word.
You should not do any reverse operation, the resulting string is "abcd".

Constraints:

1 <= word.length <= 250
word consists of lowercase English letters.
ch is a lowercase English letter.

Solution: Brute Force

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

string reversePrefix(string word, char ch) {

for (size_t i = 0; i < word.size(); ++i)

if (word[i] == ch) return

string(rbegin(word) + word.size() - i - 1, rend(word)) + word.substr(i + 1);

return word;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 2073. Time Needed to Buy Tickets

By zxi on November 15, 2021

There are n people in a line queuing to buy tickets, where the 0^th person is at the front of the line and the (n - 1)^th person is at the back of the line.

You are given a 0-indexed integer array tickets of length n where the number of tickets that the i^th person would like to buy is tickets[i].

Each person takes exactly 1 second to buy a ticket. A person can only buy 1 ticket at a time and has to go back to the end of the line (which happens instantaneously) in order to buy more tickets. If a person does not have any tickets left to buy, the person will leave the line.

Return the time taken for the person at position k(0-indexed) to finish buying tickets.

Example 1:

Input: tickets = [2,3,2], k = 2
Output: 6
Explanation: 
- In the first pass, everyone in the line buys a ticket and the line becomes [1, 2, 1].
- In the second pass, everyone in the line buys a ticket and the line becomes [0, 1, 0].
The person at position 2 has successfully bought 2 tickets and it took 3 + 3 = 6 seconds.

Example 2:

Input: tickets = [5,1,1,1], k = 0
Output: 8
Explanation:
- In the first pass, everyone in the line buys a ticket and the line becomes [4, 0, 0, 0].
- In the next 4 passes, only the person in position 0 is buying tickets.
The person at position 0 has successfully bought 5 tickets and it took 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 8 seconds.

Constraints:

n == tickets.length
1 <= n <= 100
1 <= tickets[i] <= 100
0 <= k < n

Solution 1: Simulation

Time complexity: O(n * tickets[k])
Space complexity: O(n) / O(1)

C++

// Author: huahua

class Solution {

public:

int timeRequiredToBuy(vector<int>& tickets, int k) {

const int n = tickets.size();

queue<pair<int, int>> q;

for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)

q.emplace(i, tickets[i]);

int ans = 0;

while (!q.empty()) {

++ans;

auto [i, t] = q.front(); q.pop();

if (--t == 0 && k == i) return ans;

if (t) q.emplace(i, t);

}

return -1;

}

};

Solution 2: Math

Each person before k will have tickets[k] rounds, each person after k will have tickets[k] – 1 rounds.

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

C++

// Author: huahua

class Solution {

public:

int timeRequiredToBuy(vector<int>& tickets, int k) {

int ans = 0;

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

ans += min(tickets[i], tickets[k] - (i > k));

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 2068. Check Whether Two Strings are Almost Equivalent

By zxi on November 13, 2021

Two strings word1 and word2 are considered almost equivalent if the differences between the frequencies of each letter from 'a' to 'z' between word1 and word2 is at most 3.

Given two strings word1 and word2, each of length n, return true if word1 and word2 are almost equivalent, or false otherwise.

The frequency of a letter x is the number of times it occurs in the string.

Example 1:

Input: word1 = "aaaa", word2 = "bccb"
Output: false
Explanation: There are 4 'a's in "aaaa" but 0 'a's in "bccb".
The difference is 4, which is more than the allowed 3.

Example 2:

Input: word1 = "abcdeef", word2 = "abaaacc"
Output: true
Explanation: The differences between the frequencies of each letter in word1 and word2 are at most 3:
- 'a' appears 1 time in word1 and 4 times in word2. The difference is 3.
- 'b' appears 1 time in word1 and 1 time in word2. The difference is 0.
- 'c' appears 1 time in word1 and 2 times in word2. The difference is 1.
- 'd' appears 1 time in word1 and 0 times in word2. The difference is 1.
- 'e' appears 2 times in word1 and 0 times in word2. The difference is 2.
- 'f' appears 1 time in word1 and 0 times in word2. The difference is 1.

Example 3:

Input: word1 = "cccddabba", word2 = "babababab"
Output: true
Explanation: The differences between the frequencies of each letter in word1 and word2 are at most 3:
- 'a' appears 2 times in word1 and 4 times in word2. The difference is 2.
- 'b' appears 2 times in word1 and 5 times in word2. The difference is 3.
- 'c' appears 3 times in word1 and 0 times in word2. The difference is 3.
- 'd' appears 2 times in word1 and 0 times in word2. The difference is 2.

Constraints:

n == word1.length == word2.length
1 <= n <= 100
word1 and word2 consist only of lowercase English letters.

Solution: Hashtable

Use a hashtable to track the relative frequency of a letter.

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

bool checkAlmostEquivalent(string word1, string word2) {

vector<int> m(26);

for (char c: word1) ++m[c - 'a'];

for (char c: word2) --m[c - 'a'];

for (int i = 0; i < 26; ++i)

if (abs(m[i]) > 3) return false;

return true;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 2062. Count Vowel Substrings of a String

By zxi on November 7, 2021

A substring is a contiguous (non-empty) sequence of characters within a string.

A vowel substring is a substring that only consists of vowels ('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', and 'u') and has all five vowels present in it.

Given a string word, return the number of vowel substrings in word.

Example 1:

Input: word = "aeiouu"
Output: 2
Explanation: The vowel substrings of word are as follows (underlined):
- "aeiouu"
- "aeiouu"

Example 2:

Input: word = "unicornarihan"
Output: 0
Explanation: Not all 5 vowels are present, so there are no vowel substrings.

Example 3:

Input: word = "cuaieuouac"
Output: 7
Explanation: The vowel substrings of word are as follows (underlined):
- "cuaieuouac"
- "cuaieuouac"
- "cuaieuouac"
- "cuaieuouac"
- "cuaieuouac"
- "cuaieuouac"
- "cuaieuouac"

Example 4:

Input: word = "bbaeixoubb"
Output: 0
Explanation: The only substrings that contain all five vowels also contain consonants, so there are no vowel substrings.

Constraints:

1 <= word.length <= 100
word consists of lowercase English letters only.

Solution 1: Brute Force

Time complexity: O(n²)
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int countVowelSubstrings(string_view word) {

const int n = word.size();

auto check = [&](string_view s) {

set<int> seen;

string vowels {"aeiou"};

for (char c : s) {

if (vowels.find(c) == string::npos) return false;

seen.insert(c);

}

return seen.size() == 5;

};

int ans = 0;

for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)

for (int l = 5; i + l <= n; ++l)

if (check(word.substr(i, l))) ++ans;

return ans;

}

};

Solution 2: Sliding Window / Three Pointers

Maintain a window [i, j] that contain all 5 vowels, find k s.t. [k + 1, i] no longer container 5 vowels.
# of valid substrings end with j will be (k – i).

##aeiouaeioo##
..i....k...j..
i = 3, k = 8, j = 12

Valid substrings are:
aeiouaeioo .eiouaeioo ..iouaeioo ...ouaeioo ....uaeioo
8 – 3 = 5

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int countVowelSubstrings(string_view word) {

constexpr string_view vowels{"aeiou"};

int ans = 0;

unordered_map<char, int> m;

for (char c : vowels) m[c] = 0;

for (size_t i = 0, j = 0, k = 0, v = 0; j < word.size(); ++j) {

if (m.count(word[j])) {

v += (++m[word[j]] == 1);

while (v == 5)

v -= (--m[word[k++]] == 0);

ans += k - i;

} else {

for (char c : vowels) m[c] = 0;

v = 0;

i = k = j + 1;

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 2057. Smallest Index With Equal Value

By zxi on November 3, 2021

Given a 0-indexed integer array nums, return the smallest index i of nums such that i mod 10 == nums[i], or -1 if such index does not exist.

x mod y denotes the remainder when x is divided by y.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [0,1,2]
Output: 0
Explanation: 
i=0: 0 mod 10 = 0 == nums[0].
i=1: 1 mod 10 = 1 == nums[1].
i=2: 2 mod 10 = 2 == nums[2].
All indices have i mod 10 == nums[i], so we return the smallest index 0.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [4,3,2,1]
Output: 2
Explanation: 
i=0: 0 mod 10 = 0 != nums[0].
i=1: 1 mod 10 = 1 != nums[1].
i=2: 2 mod 10 = 2 == nums[2].
i=3: 3 mod 10 = 3 != nums[3].
2 is the only index which has i mod 10 == nums[i].

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0]
Output: -1
Explanation: No index satisfies i mod 10 == nums[i].

Example 4:

Input: nums = [2,1,3,5,2]
Output: 1
Explanation: 1 is the only index with i mod 10 == nums[i].

Constraints:

1 <= nums.length <= 100
0 <= nums[i] <= 9

Solution: Brute Force

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int smallestEqual(vector<int>& nums) {

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

if (i % 10 == nums[i]) return i;

return -1;

}

};