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LeetCode 1422. Maximum Score After Splitting a String

By zxi on April 25, 2020

Given a string s of zeros and ones, return the maximum score after splitting the string into two non-empty substrings (i.e. left substring and right substring).

The score after splitting a string is the number of zeros in the left substring plus the number of ones in the right substring.

Example 1:

Input: s = "011101"
Output: 5 
Explanation: 
All possible ways of splitting s into two non-empty substrings are:
left = "0" and right = "11101", score = 1 + 4 = 5 
left = "01" and right = "1101", score = 1 + 3 = 4 
left = "011" and right = "101", score = 1 + 2 = 3 
left = "0111" and right = "01", score = 1 + 1 = 2 
left = "01110" and right = "1", score = 2 + 1 = 3

Example 2:

Input: s = "00111"
Output: 5
Explanation: When left = "00" and right = "111", we get the maximum score = 2 + 3 = 5

Example 3:

Input: s = "1111"
Output: 3

Constraints:

2 <= s.length <= 500
The string s consists of characters ‘0’ and ‘1’ only.

Solution 1: Brute Force

Time complexity: O(n^2)
Space complexity: O(1)

Solution 2: Counting

2.1 Two passes,
1st, count the number of ones of the entire string
2nd, inc zeros or dec ones according to s[i]
ans = max(zeros + ones)

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int maxScore(string s) {

int ones = 0;

for (char c : s)

if (c == '1') ++ones;

int zeros = 0;

int ans = 0;

for (int i = 0; i < s.length() - 1; ++i) {

if (s[i] == '0') ++zeros;

else --ones;

ans = max(ans, zeros + ones);

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1417. Reformat The String

By zxi on April 20, 2020

Given alphanumeric string s. (Alphanumeric string is a string consisting of lowercase English letters and digits).

You have to find a permutation of the string where no letter is followed by another letter and no digit is followed by another digit. That is, no two adjacent characters have the same type.

Return the reformatted string or return an empty string if it is impossible to reformat the string.

Example 1:

Input: s = "a0b1c2"
Output: "0a1b2c"
Explanation: No two adjacent characters have the same type in "0a1b2c". "a0b1c2", "0a1b2c", "0c2a1b" are also valid permutations.

Example 2:

Input: s = "leetcode"
Output: ""
Explanation: "leetcode" has only characters so we cannot separate them by digits.

Example 3:

Input: s = "1229857369"
Output: ""
Explanation: "1229857369" has only digits so we cannot separate them by characters.

Example 4:

Input: s = "covid2019"
Output: "c2o0v1i9d"

Example 5:

Input: s = "ab123"
Output: "1a2b3"

Constraints:

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

Solution: Two streams

Create two stacks, one for alphas, another for numbers. If the larger stack has more than one element than the other one then no solution, return “”. Otherwise, interleave two stacks, start with the larger one.

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

string reformat(string s) {

string q1;

string q2;

for (char c : s) {

if (isalpha(c))

q1 += c;

else

q2 += c;

}

if (q1.length() < q2.length())

swap(q1, q2);

if (q1.length() > q2.length() + 1)

return "";

string ans;

while (!q1.empty()) {

ans += q1.back();

q1.pop_back();

if (q2.empty()) break;

ans += q2.back();

q2.pop_back();

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1413. Minimum Value to Get Positive Step by Step Sum

By zxi on April 18, 2020

Given an array of integers nums, you start with an initial positive value startValue.

In each iteration, you calculate the step by step sum of startValue plus elements in nums (from left to right).

Return the minimum positive value of startValue such that the step by step sum is never less than 1.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [-3,2,-3,4,2]
Output: 5
Explanation: If you choose startValue = 4, in the third iteration your step by step sum is less than 1.
                step by step sum
                startValue = 4 | startValue = 5 | nums
                  (4 -3 ) = 1  | (5 -3 ) = 2    |  -3
                  (1 +2 ) = 3  | (2 +2 ) = 4    |   2
                  (3 -3 ) = 0  | (4 -3 ) = 1    |  -3
                  (0 +4 ) = 4  | (1 +4 ) = 5    |   4
                  (4 +2 ) = 6  | (5 +2 ) = 7    |   2

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1,2]
Output: 1
Explanation: Minimum start value should be positive.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1,-2,-3]
Output: 5

Constraints:

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

Solution: Prefix sum

Find the minimum prefix sum, ans = – min(prefix_sum, 0) + 1

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int minStartValue(vector<int>& nums) {

int min_sum = 0;

int sum = 0;

for (int num : nums) {

sum += num;

min_sum = min(min_sum, sum);

}

return -min_sum + 1;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1408. String Matching in an Array

By zxi on April 11, 2020

Given an array of string words. Return all strings in words which is substring of another word in any order.

String words[i] is substring of words[j], if can be obtained removing some characters to left and/or right side of words[j].

Example 1:

Input: words = ["mass","as","hero","superhero"]
Output: ["as","hero"]
Explanation: "as" is substring of "mass" and "hero" is substring of "superhero".
["hero","as"] is also a valid answer.

Example 2:

Input: words = ["leetcode","et","code"]
Output: ["et","code"]
Explanation: "et", "code" are substring of "leetcode".

Example 3:

Input: words = ["blue","green","bu"]
Output: []

Constraints:

1 <= words.length <= 100
1 <= words[i].length <= 30
words[i] contains only lowercase English letters.
It’s guaranteed that words[i] will be unique.

Solution: Brute Force

Time complexity: O(n^2)
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

vector<string> stringMatching(vector<string>& words) {

vector<string> ans;

const int n = words.size();

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

for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {

if (i == j) continue;

if (words[j].find(words[i]) != string::npos) {

ans.push_back(words[i]);

break;

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1403. Minimum Subsequence in Non-Increasing Order

By zxi on April 4, 2020

Given the array nums, obtain a subsequence of the array whose sum of elements is strictly greater than the sum of the non included elements in such subsequence.

If there are multiple solutions, return the subsequence with minimum size and if there still exist multiple solutions, return the subsequence with the maximum total sum of all its elements. A subsequence of an array can be obtained by erasing some (possibly zero) elements from the array.

Note that the solution with the given constraints is guaranteed to be unique. Also return the answer sorted in non-increasing order.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [4,3,10,9,8]
Output: [10,9] 
Explanation: The subsequences [10,9] and [10,8] are minimal such that the sum of their elements is strictly greater than the sum of elements not included, however, the subsequence [10,9] has the maximum total sum of its elements.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [4,4,7,6,7]
Output: [7,7,6] 
Explanation: The subsequence [7,7] has the sum of its elements equal to 14 which is not strictly greater than the sum of elements not included (14 = 4 + 4 + 6). Therefore, the subsequence [7,6,7] is the minimal satisfying the conditions. Note the subsequence has to returned in non-decreasing order.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [6]
Output: [6]

Constraints:

1 <= nums.length <= 500
1 <= nums[i] <= 100

Solution: Greedy

Sort the elements in reverse order, pick the largest elements until their sum is greater than the sum of the left elements or total / 2.

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

vector<int> minSubsequence(vector<int>& nums) {

sort(rbegin(nums), rend(nums));

int total = accumulate(begin(nums), end(nums), 0);

vector<int> ans;

int sum = 0;

for (int v : nums) {

sum += v;

ans.push_back(v);

if (sum > total / 2) break;

}

return ans;

}

};