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Given two strings s and t, your goal is to convert s into t in kmoves or less.

During the i^th (1 <= i <= k) move you can:

Choose any index j (1-indexed) from s, such that 1 <= j <= s.length and j has not been chosen in any previous move, and shift the character at that index i times.
Do nothing.

Shifting a character means replacing it by the next letter in the alphabet (wrapping around so that 'z' becomes 'a'). Shifting a character by i means applying the shift operations i times.

Remember that any index j can be picked at most once.

Return true if it’s possible to convert s into t in no more than k moves, otherwise return false.

Example 1:

Input: s = "input", t = "ouput", k = 9
Output: true
Explanation: In the 6th move, we shift 'i' 6 times to get 'o'. And in the 7th move we shift 'n' to get 'u'.

Example 2:

Input: s = "abc", t = "bcd", k = 10
Output: false
Explanation: We need to shift each character in s one time to convert it into t. We can shift 'a' to 'b' during the 1st move. However, there is no way to shift the other characters in the remaining moves to obtain t from s.

Example 3:

Input: s = "aab", t = "bbb", k = 27
Output: true
Explanation: In the 1st move, we shift the first 'a' 1 time to get 'b'. In the 27th move, we shift the second 'a' 27 times to get 'b'.

Constraints:

1 <= s.length, t.length <= 10^5
0 <= k <= 10^9
s, t contain only lowercase English letters.

Solution: HashTable

Count how many times a d-shift has occurred.
a -> c is a 2-shift, z -> b is also 2-shift
a -> d is a 3-shift
a -> a is a 0-shift that we can skip
if a d-shift happened for the first time, we need at least d moves
However, if it happened for c times, we need at least d + 26 * c moves
e.g. we can do a 2-shift at the 2nd move, do another one at 2 + 26 = 28th move and do another at 2 + 26*2 = 54th move, and so on.
Need to find maximum move we need and make sure that one is <= k.
Since we can pick any index to shift, so the order doesn’t matter. We can start from left to right.

Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(26) = O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

bool canConvertString(string s, string t, int k) {

if (s.length() != t.length()) return false;

vector<int> count(26);

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

int d = (t[i] - s[i] + 26) % 26;

int c = count[d]++;

if (d != 0 && d + c * 26 > k)

return false;

}

return true;

}

};

Problem

We have a string S of lowercase letters, and an integer array shifts.

Call the shift of a letter, the next letter in the alphabet, (wrapping around so that 'z' becomes 'a').

For example, shift('a') = 'b', shift('t') = 'u', and shift('z') = 'a'.

Now for each shifts[i] = x, we want to shift the first i+1 letters of S, x times.

Return the final string after all such shifts to S are applied.

Example 1:

Input: S = "abc", shifts = [3,5,9] Output: "rpl" Explanation: We start with "abc". After shifting the first 1 letters of S by 3, we have "dbc". After shifting the first 2 letters of S by 5, we have "igc". After shifting the first 3 letters of S by 9, we have "rpl", the answer.

Note:

1 <= S.length = shifts.length <= 20000

0 <= shifts[i] <= 10 ^ 9

Solution

Time complexity: O(n)

Space complexity: O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua

// Running time: 54 ms

class Solution {

public:

string shiftingLetters(string S, vector<int>& shifts) {

int c = 0;

for (int i = shifts.size() - 1; i >= 0; --i) {

c += (shifts[i] % 26);

S[i] = (S[i] - 'a' + c) % 26 + 'a';

}

return S;

}

};

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