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花花酱 LeetCode 1812. Determine Color of a Chessboard Square

By zxi on April 3, 2021

You are given coordinates, a string that represents the coordinates of a square of the chessboard. Below is a chessboard for your reference.

Return true if the square is white, and false if the square is black.

The coordinate will always represent a valid chessboard square. The coordinate will always have the letter first, and the number second.

Example 1:

Input: coordinates = "a1"
Output: false
Explanation: From the chessboard above, the square with coordinates "a1" is black, so return false.

Example 2:

Input: coordinates = "h3"
Output: true
Explanation: From the chessboard above, the square with coordinates "h3" is white, so return true.

Example 3:

Input: coordinates = "c7"
Output: false

Constraints:

coordinates.length == 2
'a' <= coordinates[0] <= 'h'
'1' <= coordinates[1] <= '8'

Solution: Mod2

return (row_index + col_index) % 2 == 0

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

C++

class Solution {

public:

bool squareIsWhite(string coordinates) {

return ((coordinates[0] - 'a') + (coordinates[1] - '0')) % 2 == 0;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1805. Number of Different Integers in a String

By zxi on March 27, 2021

You are given a string word that consists of digits and lowercase English letters.

You will replace every non-digit character with a space. For example, "a123bc34d8ef34" will become " 123 34 8 34". Notice that you are left with some integers that are separated by at least one space: "123", "34", "8", and "34".

Return the number of different integers after performing the replacement operations on word.

Two integers are considered different if their decimal representations without any leading zeros are different.

Example 1:

Input: word = "a123bc34d8ef34"
Output: 3
Explanation: The three different integers are "123", "34", and "8". Notice that "34" is only counted once.

Example 2:

Input: word = "leet1234code234"
Output: 2

Example 3:

Input: word = "a1b01c001"
Output: 1
Explanation: The three integers "1", "01", and "001" all represent the same integer because
the leading zeros are ignored when comparing their decimal values.

Constraints:

1 <= word.length <= 1000
word consists of digits and lowercase English letters.

Solution: Hashtable

Be careful about leading zeros.

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int numDifferentIntegers(string word) {

word += "$";

unordered_set<string> s;

deque<char> cur;

for (char c : word) {

if (isdigit(c)) {

cur.push_back(c);

} else if (!cur.empty()) {

while (cur.size() > 1 && cur[0] == '0')

cur.pop_front();

s.insert({begin(cur), end(cur)});

cur.clear();

}

return s.size();

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1800. Maximum Ascending Subarray Sum

By zxi on March 21, 2021

Given an array of positive integers nums, return the maximum possible sum of an ascending subarray in nums.

A subarray is defined as a contiguous sequence of numbers in an array.

A subarray [nums_l, nums_l+1, ..., nums_r-1, nums_r] is ascending if for all i where l <= i < r, nums_i< nums_i+1. Note that a subarray of size 1 is ascending.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [10,20,30,5,10,50]
Output: 65
Explanation: [5,10,50] is the ascending subarray with the maximum sum of 65.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [10,20,30,40,50]
Output: 150
Explanation: [10,20,30,40,50] is the ascending subarray with the maximum sum of 150.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [12,17,15,13,10,11,12]
Output: 33
Explanation: [10,11,12] is the ascending subarray with the maximum sum of 33.

Example 4:

Input: nums = [100,10,1]
Output: 100

Constraints:

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

Solution: Running sum with resetting

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

Track the running sum and reset it to zero if nums[i] <= nums[i – 1]

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int maxAscendingSum(vector<int>& nums) {

int ans = 0;

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

if (i && nums[i] <= nums[i - 1])

s = 0;

ans = max(ans, s += nums[i]);

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1796. Second Largest Digit in a String

By zxi on March 20, 2021

Given an alphanumeric string s, return the second largest numerical digit that appears in s, or -1 if it does not exist.

An alphanumericstring is a string consisting of lowercase English letters and digits.

Example 1:

Input: s = "dfa12321afd"
Output: 2
Explanation: The digits that appear in s are [1, 2, 3]. The second largest digit is 2.

Example 2:

Input: s = "abc1111"
Output: -1
Explanation: The digits that appear in s are [1]. There is no second largest digit.

Constraints:

1 <= s.length <= 500
s consists of only lowercase English letters and/or digits.

Solution: Hashtable

Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(10)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int secondHighest(string s) {

vector<int> d(10);

for (char c : s)

if (c >= '0' && c <= '9')

d[c - '0'] = 1;

int order = 0;

for (int i = 9; i >= 0; --i)

if (d[i] && ++order == 2)

return i;

return -1;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1790. Check if One String Swap Can Make Strings Equal

By zxi on March 13, 2021

You are given two strings s1 and s2 of equal length. A string swap is an operation where you choose two indices in a string (not necessarily different) and swap the characters at these indices.

Return true if it is possible to make both strings equal by performing at most one string swap on exactly one of the strings. Otherwise, return false.

Example 1:

Input: s1 = "bank", s2 = "kanb"
Output: true
Explanation: For example, swap the first character with the last character of s2 to make "bank".

Example 2:

Input: s1 = "attack", s2 = "defend"
Output: false
Explanation: It is impossible to make them equal with one string swap.

Example 3:

Input: s1 = "kelb", s2 = "kelb"
Output: true
Explanation: The two strings are already equal, so no string swap operation is required.

Example 4:

Input: s1 = "abcd", s2 = "dcba"
Output: false

Constraints:

1 <= s1.length, s2.length <= 100
s1.length == s2.length
s1 and s2 consist of only lowercase English letters.

Solution: Remember two indices

There needs to be either 0 or 2 indices are different. Otherwise return false.
s1[idx1] == s2[idx2] and s1[idx2] == s2[idx1]

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

bool areAlmostEqual(string s1, string s2) {

vector<int> idx;

for (int i = 0; i < s1.length() && idx.size() <= 2; ++i)

if (s1[i] != s2[i]) idx.push_back(i);

if (idx.size() == 0) return true;

if (idx.size() != 2) return false;

return s1[idx[0]] == s2[idx[1]] && s1[idx[1]] == s2[idx[0]];

}

};