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花花酱 LeetCode 1455. Check If a Word Occurs As a Prefix of Any Word in a Sentence

By zxi on May 23, 2020

Given a sentence that consists of some words separated by a single space, and a searchWord.

You have to check if searchWord is a prefix of any word in sentence.

Return the index of the word in sentence where searchWord is a prefix of this word (1-indexed).

If searchWord is a prefix of more than one word, return the index of the first word (minimum index). If there is no such word return -1.

A prefix of a string S is any leading contiguous substring of S.

Example 1:

Input: sentence = "i love eating burger", searchWord = "burg"
Output: 4
Explanation: "burg" is prefix of "burger" which is the 4th word in the sentence.

Example 2:

Input: sentence = "this problem is an easy problem", searchWord = "pro"
Output: 2
Explanation: "pro" is prefix of "problem" which is the 2nd and the 6th word in the sentence, but we return 2 as it's the minimal index.

Example 3:

Input: sentence = "i am tired", searchWord = "you"
Output: -1
Explanation: "you" is not a prefix of any word in the sentence.

Example 4:

Input: sentence = "i use triple pillow", searchWord = "pill"
Output: 4

Example 5:

Input: sentence = "hello from the other side", searchWord = "they"
Output: -1

Constraints:

1 <= sentence.length <= 100
1 <= searchWord.length <= 10
sentence consists of lowercase English letters and spaces.
searchWord consists of lowercase English letters.

Solution 1: Brute Force

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

C++

class Solution {

public:

int isPrefixOfWord(string sentence, string searchWord) {

const int n = sentence.size();

const int l = searchWord.size();

int word = 0;

for (int i = 0; i <= n - l; ++i) {

if (i == 0 || sentence[i - 1] == ' ') {

++word;

bool valid = true;

for (int j = 0; j < l && valid; ++j)

valid = valid && (sentence[i + j] == searchWord[j]);

if (valid) return word;

}

return -1;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1446. Consecutive Characters

By zxi on May 17, 2020

Given a string s, the power of the string is the maximum length of a non-empty substring that contains only one unique character.

Return the power of the string.

Example 1:

Input: s = "leetcode"
Output: 2
Explanation: The substring "ee" is of length 2 with the character 'e' only.

Example 2:

Input: s = "abbcccddddeeeeedcba"
Output: 5
Explanation: The substring "eeeee" is of length 5 with the character 'e' only.

Example 3:

Input: s = "triplepillooooow"
Output: 5

Example 4:

Input: s = "hooraaaaaaaaaaay"
Output: 11

Example 5:

Input: s = "tourist"
Output: 1

Constraints:

1 <= s.length <= 500
s contains only lowercase English letters.

Solution: Run length encoding?

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int maxPower(string s) {

char p = '?';

int ans = 0;

int cur = 0;

for (char c : s) {

if (c != p) cur = 0;

p = c;

ans = max(ans, ++cur);

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1450. Number of Students Doing Homework at a Given Time

By zxi on May 16, 2020

Given two integer arrays startTime and endTime and given an integer queryTime.

The ith student started doing their homework at the time startTime[i] and finished it at time endTime[i].

Return the number of students doing their homework at time queryTime. More formally, return the number of students where queryTime lays in the interval [startTime[i], endTime[i]] inclusive.

Example 1:

Input: startTime = [1,2,3], endTime = [3,2,7], queryTime = 4
Output: 1
Explanation: We have 3 students where:
The first student started doing homework at time 1 and finished at time 3 and wasn't doing anything at time 4.
The second student started doing homework at time 2 and finished at time 2 and also wasn't doing anything at time 4.
The third student started doing homework at time 3 and finished at time 7 and was the only student doing homework at time 4.

Example 2:

Input: startTime = [4], endTime = [4], queryTime = 4
Output: 1
Explanation: The only student was doing their homework at the queryTime.

Example 3:

Input: startTime = [4], endTime = [4], queryTime = 5
Output: 0

Example 4:

Input: startTime = [1,1,1,1], endTime = [1,3,2,4], queryTime = 7
Output: 0

Example 5:

Input: startTime = [9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1], endTime = [10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10], queryTime = 5
Output: 5

Constraints:

startTime.length == endTime.length
1 <= startTime.length <= 100
1 <= startTime[i] <= endTime[i] <= 1000
1 <= queryTime <= 1000

Solution: Brute Force

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int busyStudent(vector<int>& startTime, vector<int>& endTime, int queryTime) {

int ans = 0;

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

if (startTime[i] <= queryTime && queryTime <= endTime[i]) ++ans;

return ans;

}

};

Python3

# Author: Huahua

class Solution:

def busyStudent(self, startTime: List[int], endTime: List[int], queryTime: int) -> int:

return sum(s <= queryTime <= e for s, e in zip(startTime, endTime))

花花酱 LeetCode 1441. Build an Array With Stack Operations

By zxi on May 11, 2020

Given an array target and an integer n. In each iteration, you will read a number from list = {1,2,3..., n}.

Build the target array using the following operations:

Push: Read a new element from the beginning list, and push it in the array.
Pop: delete the last element of the array.
If the target array is already built, stop reading more elements.

You are guaranteed that the target array is strictly increasing, only containing numbers between 1 to n inclusive.

Return the operations to build the target array.

You are guaranteed that the answer is unique.

Example 1:

Input: target = [1,3], n = 3
Output: ["Push","Push","Pop","Push"]
Explanation: 
Read number 1 and automatically push in the array -> [1]
Read number 2 and automatically push in the array then Pop it -> [1]
Read number 3 and automatically push in the array -> [1,3]

Example 2:

Input: target = [1,2,3], n = 3
Output: ["Push","Push","Push"]

Example 3:

Input: target = [1,2], n = 4
Output: ["Push","Push"]
Explanation: You only need to read the first 2 numbers and stop.

Example 4:

Input: target = [2,3,4], n = 4
Output: ["Push","Pop","Push","Push","Push"]

Constraints:

1 <= target.length <= 100
1 <= target[i] <= 100
1 <= n <= 100
target is strictly increasing.

Solution: Simulation

For each number in target, keep discarding i if i != num by “Push” + “Pop”, until i == num. One more “Push”.

Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(n) or O(1) w/o output.

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

vector<string> buildArray(vector<int>& target, int n) {

vector<string> ans;

int i = 1;

for (int num : target) {

while (i != num) {

ans.push_back("Push");

ans.push_back("Pop");

++i;

}

ans.push_back("Push");

++i;

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1436. Destination City

By zxi on May 3, 2020

You are given the array paths, where paths[i] = [cityA_i, cityB_i] means there exists a direct path going from cityA_i to cityB_i. Return the destination city, that is, the city without any path outgoing to another city.

It is guaranteed that the graph of paths forms a line without any loop, therefore, there will be exactly one destination city.

Example 1:

Input: paths = [["London","New York"],["New York","Lima"],["Lima","Sao Paulo"]]
Output: "Sao Paulo" 
Explanation: Starting at "London" city you will reach "Sao Paulo" city which is the destination city. Your trip consist of: "London" -> "New York" -> "Lima" -> "Sao Paulo".

Example 2:

Input: paths = [["B","C"],["D","B"],["C","A"]]
Output: "A"
Explanation: All possible trips are: 
"D" -> "B" -> "C" -> "A". 
"B" -> "C" -> "A". 
"C" -> "A". 
"A". 
Clearly the destination city is "A".

Example 3:

Input: paths = [["A","Z"]]
Output: "Z"

Constraints:

1 <= paths.length <= 100
paths[i].length == 2
1 <= cityA_i.length, cityB_i.length <= 10
cityA_i!= cityB_i
All strings consist of lowercase and uppercase English letters and the space character.

Solution: Count in / out degree for each node

Note: this is a more general solution to this type of problems.

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

Destination City: in_degree == 1 and out_degree == 0

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

string destCity(vector<vector<string>>& paths) {

unordered_map<string, int> in, out;

for (const auto& path : paths) {

++out[path[0]];

++in[path[1]];

}

for (const auto& [city, degree] : in)

if (degree == 1 && out[city] == 0) return city;

return "";

}

};