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花花酱 LeetCode 1639. Number of Ways to Form a Target String Given a Dictionary

By zxi on October 31, 2020

You are given a list of strings of the same length words and a string target.

Your task is to form target using the given words under the following rules:

target should be formed from left to right.
To form the i^th character (0-indexed) of target, you can choose the k^th character of the j^th string in words if target[i] = words[j][k].
Once you use the k^th character of the j^th string of words, you can no longer use the x^th character of any string in words where x <= k. In other words, all characters to the left of or at index k become unusuable for every string.
Repeat the process until you form the string target.

Notice that you can use multiple characters from the same string in words provided the conditions above are met.

Return the number of ways to form target from words. Since the answer may be too large, return it modulo 10⁹ + 7.

Example 1:

Input: words = ["acca","bbbb","caca"], target = "aba"
Output: 6
Explanation: There are 6 ways to form target.
"aba" -> index 0 ("acca"), index 1 ("bbbb"), index 3 ("caca")
"aba" -> index 0 ("acca"), index 2 ("bbbb"), index 3 ("caca")
"aba" -> index 0 ("acca"), index 1 ("bbbb"), index 3 ("acca")
"aba" -> index 0 ("acca"), index 2 ("bbbb"), index 3 ("acca")
"aba" -> index 1 ("caca"), index 2 ("bbbb"), index 3 ("acca")
"aba" -> index 1 ("caca"), index 2 ("bbbb"), index 3 ("caca")

Example 2:

Input: words = ["abba","baab"], target = "bab"
Output: 4
Explanation: There are 4 ways to form target.
"bab" -> index 0 ("baab"), index 1 ("baab"), index 2 ("abba")
"bab" -> index 0 ("baab"), index 1 ("baab"), index 3 ("baab")
"bab" -> index 0 ("baab"), index 2 ("baab"), index 3 ("baab")
"bab" -> index 1 ("abba"), index 2 ("baab"), index 3 ("baab")

Example 3:

Input: words = ["abcd"], target = "abcd"
Output: 1

Example 4:

Input: words = ["abab","baba","abba","baab"], target = "abba"
Output: 16

Constraints:

1 <= words.length <= 1000
1 <= words[i].length <= 1000
All strings in words have the same length.
1 <= target.length <= 1000
words[i] and target contain only lowercase English letters.

Solution: DP

dp[i][j] := # of ways to form target[0~j] where the j-th letter is from the i-th column of words.
count[i][j] := # of words that have word[i] == target[j]

dp[i][j] = dp[i-1][j-1] * count[i][j]

Time complexity: O(mn)
Space complexity: O(mn) -> O(n)

C++

class Solution {

public:

int numWays(vector<string>& words, string target) {

constexpr int kMod = 1e9 + 7;

const int n = target.length();

const int m = words[0].length();

vector<long> dp(n); // dp[j] = # of ways to form t[0~j]

for (int i = 0; i < m; ++i) {

vector<int> count(26);

for (const string& word: words)

++count[word[i] - 'a'];

for (int j = min(i, n - 1); j >= 0; --j)

dp[j] = (dp[j] + (j > 0 ? dp[j - 1] : 1) *

count[target[j] - 'a']) % kMod;

}

return dp[n - 1];

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1638. Count Substrings That Differ by One Character

By zxi on October 31, 2020

Given two strings s and t, find the number of ways you can choose a non-empty substring of s and replace a single character by a different character such that the resulting substring is a substring of t. In other words, find the number of substrings in s that differ from some substring in t by exactly one character.

For example, the underlined substrings in "computer" and "computation" only differ by the 'e'/'a', so this is a valid way.

Return the number of substrings that satisfy the condition above.

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.

Example 1:

Input: s = "aba", t = "baba"
Output: 6
Explanation: The following are the pairs of substrings from s and t that differ by exactly 1 character:
("aba", "baba")
("aba", "baba")
("aba", "baba")
("aba", "baba")
("aba", "baba")
("aba", "baba")
The underlined portions are the substrings that are chosen from s and t.

Example 2:

Input: s = "ab", t = "bb"
Output: 3
Explanation: The following are the pairs of substrings from s and t that differ by 1 character:
("ab", "bb")
("ab", "bb")
("ab", "bb")
The underlined portions are the substrings that are chosen from s and t.

Example 3:

Input: s = "a", t = "a"
Output: 0

Example 4:

Input: s = "abe", t = "bbc"
Output: 10

Constraints:

1 <= s.length, t.length <= 100
s and t consist of lowercase English letters only.

Solution1: All Pairs + Prefix Matching

match s[i:i+p] with t[j:j+p], is there is one missed char, increase the ans, until there are two miss matched chars or reach the end.

Time complexity: O(m*n*min(m,n))
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

class Solution {

public:

int countSubstrings(string s, string t) {

const int m = s.length();

const int n = t.length();

int ans = 0, diff = 0;

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

for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j, diff = 0)

for (int p = 0; i + p < m && j + p < n && diff <= 1; ++p)

if ((diff += (s[i + p] != t[j + p])) == 1) ++ans;

return ans;

}

};

Solution 2: Continuous Matching

Start matching s[0] with t[j] and s[i] with t[0]

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

C++

class Solution {

public:

int countSubstrings(string s, string t) {

const int m = s.length();

const int n = t.length();

int ans = 0;

auto helper = [&](int i, int j) {

for (int cur = 0, pre = 0; i < m && j < n; ++i, ++j) {

++cur;

if (s[i] != t[j]) {

pre = cur;

cur = 0;

}

ans += pre;

}

};

for (int i = 0; i < m; ++i) helper(i, 0);

for (int j = 1; j < n; ++j) helper(0, j);

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1625. Lexicographically Smallest String After Applying Operations

By zxi on October 18, 2020

You are given a string s of even length consisting of digits from 0 to 9, and two integers a and b.

You can apply either of the following two operations any number of times and in any order on s:

Add a to all odd indices of s (0-indexed). Digits post 9 are cycled back to 0. For example, if s = "3456" and a = 5, s becomes "3951".
Rotate s to the right by b positions. For example, if s = "3456" and b = 1, s becomes "6345".

Return the lexicographically smallest string you can obtain by applying the above operations any number of times on s.

A string a is lexicographically smaller than a string b (of the same length) if in the first position where a and b differ, string a has a letter that appears earlier in the alphabet than the corresponding letter in b. For example, "0158" is lexicographically smaller than "0190" because the first position they differ is at the third letter, and '5' comes before '9'.

Example 1:

Input: s = "5525", a = 9, b = 2
Output: "2050"
Explanation: We can apply the following operations:
Start:  "5525"
Rotate: "2555"
Add:    "2454"
Add:    "2353"
Rotate: "5323"
Add:    "5222"
Add:    "5121"
Rotate: "2151"
Add:    "2050"
There is no way to obtain a string that is lexicographically smaller then "2050".

Example 2:

Input: s = "74", a = 5, b = 1
Output: "24"
Explanation: We can apply the following operations:
Start:  "74"
Rotate: "47"
Add:    "42"
Rotate: "24"
There is no way to obtain a string that is lexicographically smaller then "24".

Example 3:

Input: s = "0011", a = 4, b = 2
Output: "0011"
Explanation: There are no sequence of operations that will give us a lexicographically smaller string than "0011".

Example 4:

Input: s = "43987654", a = 7, b = 3
Output: "00553311"

Constraints:

2 <= s.length <= 100
s.length is even.
s consists of digits from 0 to 9 only.
1 <= a <= 9
1 <= b <= s.length - 1

Solution: Search

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

string findLexSmallestString(string s, int a, int b) {

unordered_set<string> seen;

string ans(s);

function<void(string)> dfs = [&](const string& s) {

if (!seen.insert(s).second) return;

ans = min(ans, s);

string t(s);

for (int i = 1; i < s.length(); i += 2)

t[i] = (t[i] - '0' + a) % 10 + '0';

dfs(t);

dfs(s.substr(b) + s.substr(0, b));

};

dfs(s);

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1624. Largest Substring Between Two Equal Characters

By zxi on October 18, 2020

Given a string s, return the length of the longest substring between two equal characters, excluding the two characters. If there is no such substring return -1.

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.

Example 1:

Input: s = "aa"
Output: 0
Explanation: The optimal substring here is an empty substring between the two 'a's.

Example 2:

Input: s = "abca"
Output: 2
Explanation: The optimal substring here is "bc".

Example 3:

Input: s = "cbzxy"
Output: -1
Explanation: There are no characters that appear twice in s.

Example 4:

Input: s = "cabbac"
Output: 4
Explanation: The optimal substring here is "abba". Other non-optimal substrings include "bb" and "".

Constraints:

1 <= s.length <= 300
s contains only lowercase English letters.

Solution: Hashtable

Remember the first position each letter occurs.

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

C++

class Solution {

public:

int maxLengthBetweenEqualCharacters(string s) {

vector<int> first(26, -1);

int ans = -1;

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

int& p = first[s[i] - 'a'];

if (p != -1) {

ans = max(ans, i - p - 1);

} else {

p = i;

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1616. Split Two Strings to Make Palindrome

By zxi on October 10, 2020

You are given two strings a and b of the same length. Choose an index and split both strings at the same index, splitting a into two strings: a_prefix and a_suffix where a = a_prefix + a_suffix, and splitting b into two strings: b_prefix and b_suffix where b = b_prefix + b_suffix. Check if a_prefix + b_suffix or b_prefix + a_suffix forms a palindrome.

When you split a string s into s_prefix and s_suffix, either s_suffix or s_prefix is allowed to be empty. For example, if s = "abc", then "" + "abc", "a" + "bc", "ab" + "c" , and "abc" + "" are valid splits.

Return true if it is possible to form a palindrome string, otherwise return false.

Notice that x + y denotes the concatenation of strings x and y.

Example 1:

Input: a = "x", b = "y"
Output: true
Explaination: If either a or b are palindromes the answer is true since you can split in the following way:
a_prefix = "", a_suffix = "x"
b_prefix = "", b_suffix = "y"
Then, a_prefix + b_suffix = "" + "y" = "y", which is a palindrome.

Example 2:

Input: a = "abdef", b = "fecab"
Output: true

Example 3:

Input: a = "ulacfd", b = "jizalu"
Output: true
Explaination: Split them at index 3:
a_prefix = "ula", a_suffix = "cfd"
b_prefix = "jiz", b_suffix = "alu"
Then, a_prefix + b_suffix = "ula" + "alu" = "ulaalu", which is a palindrome.

Example 4:

Input: a = "xbdef", b = "xecab"
Output: false

Constraints:

1 <= a.length, b.length <= 10⁵
a.length == b.length
a and b consist of lowercase English letters

Solution: Greedy

Try to match the prefix of A and suffix of B (or the other way) as much as possible and then check whether the remaining part is a palindrome or not.

e.g. A = “abcxyzzz”, B = “uuuvvcba”
A’s prefix abc matches B’s suffix cba
We just need to check whether “xy” or “vv” is palindrome or not.
The concatenated string “abc|vvcba” is a palindrome, left abc is from A and vvcba is from B.

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

bool checkPalindromeFormation(string a, string b) {

auto isPalindrome = [](const string& s, int i, int j) {

while (i < j && s[i] == s[j]) ++i, --j;

return i >= j;

};

auto check = [&isPalindrome](const string& a, const string& b) {

int i = 0;

int j = a.length() - 1;

while (a[i] == b[j]) ++i, --j;

return isPalindrome(a, i, j) || isPalindrome(b, i, j);

};

return check(a, b) || check(b, a);

}

};