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花花酱 LeetCode 1592. Rearrange Spaces Between Words

By zxi on September 20, 2020

You are given a string text of words that are placed among some number of spaces. Each word consists of one or more lowercase English letters and are separated by at least one space. It’s guaranteed that text contains at least one word.

Rearrange the spaces so that there is an equal number of spaces between every pair of adjacent words and that number is maximized. If you cannot redistribute all the spaces equally, place the extra spaces at the end, meaning the returned string should be the same length as text.

Return the string after rearranging the spaces.

Example 1:

Input: text = "  this   is  a sentence "
Output: "this   is   a   sentence"
Explanation: There are a total of 9 spaces and 4 words. We can evenly divide the 9 spaces between the words: 9 / (4-1) = 3 spaces.

Example 2:

Input: text = " practice   makes   perfect"
Output: "practice   makes   perfect "
Explanation: There are a total of 7 spaces and 3 words. 7 / (3-1) = 3 spaces plus 1 extra space. We place this extra space at the end of the string.

Example 3:

Input: text = "hello   world"
Output: "hello   world"

Example 4:

Input: text = "  walks  udp package   into  bar a"
Output: "walks  udp  package  into  bar  a "

Example 5:

Input: text = "a"
Output: "a"

Constraints:

1 <= text.length <= 100
text consists of lowercase English letters and ' '.
text contains at least one word.

Solution: Simulation

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

string reorderSpaces(string text) {

vector<string> words;

string word;

int t = 0;

for (char c : text) {

if (c == ' ') {

++t;

if (!word.empty()) {

words.push_back(word);

word.clear();

}

} else {

word += c;

}

if (!word.empty()) words.push_back(word);

const int n = words.size();

if (n == 1) return words[0] + string(t, ' ');

const int s = t / (n - 1);

const int r = t % (n - 1);

string ans;

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

if (i) ans.append(s, ' ');

ans += words[i];

}

ans.append(r, ' ');

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1585. Check If String Is Transformable With Substring Sort Operations

By zxi on September 13, 2020

Given two strings s and t, you want to transform string s into string t using the following operation any number of times:

Choose a non-empty substring in s and sort it in-place so the characters are in ascending order.

For example, applying the operation on the underlined substring in "14234" results in "12344".

Return true if it is possible to transform string s into string t. Otherwise, return false.

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

Example 1:

Input: s = "84532", t = "34852"
Output: true
Explanation: You can transform s into t using the following sort operations:
"84532" (from index 2 to 3) -> "84352"
"84352" (from index 0 to 2) -> "34852"

Example 2:

Input: s = "34521", t = "23415"
Output: true
Explanation: You can transform s into t using the following sort operations:
"34521" -> "23451"
"23451" -> "23415"

Example 3:

Input: s = "12345", t = "12435"
Output: false

Example 4:

Input: s = "1", t = "2"
Output: false

Constraints:

s.length == t.length
1 <= s.length <= 10⁵
s and t only contain digits from '0' to '9'.

Solution: Queue

We can move a smaller digit from right to left by sorting two adjacent digits.
e.g. 18572 -> 18527 -> 18257 -> 12857, but we can not move a larger to the left of a smaller one.

Thus, for each digit in the target string, we find the first occurrence of it in s, and try to move it to the front by checking if there is any smaller one in front of it.

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

C++

class Solution {

public:

bool isTransformable(string s, string t) {

vector<deque<int>> idx(10);

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

idx[s[i] - '0'].push_back(i);

for (char c : t) {

const int d = c - '0';

if (idx[d].empty()) return false;

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

if (!idx[i].empty() && idx[i].front() < idx[d].front())

return false;

idx[d].pop_front();

}

return true;

}

};

Python3

class Solution:

def isTransformable(self, s: str, t: str) -> bool:

idx = defaultdict(deque)

for i, c in enumerate(s):

idx[int(c)].append(i)

for c in t:

d = int(c)

if not idx[d]: return False

for i in range(d):

if idx[i] and idx[i][0] < idx[d][0]: return False

idx[d].popleft()

return True

花花酱 LeetCode 1578. Minimum Deletion Cost to Avoid Repeating Letters

By zxi on September 5, 2020

Given a string s and an array of integers cost where cost[i] is the cost of deleting the character i in s.

Return the minimum cost of deletions such that there are no two identical letters next to each other.

Notice that you will delete the chosen characters at the same time, in other words, after deleting a character, the costs of deleting other characters will not change.

Example 1:

Input: s = "abaac", cost = [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: 3
Explanation: Delete the letter "a" with cost 3 to get "abac" (String without two identical letters next to each other).

Example 2:

Input: s = "abc", cost = [1,2,3]
Output: 0
Explanation: You don't need to delete any character because there are no identical letters next to each other.

Example 3:

Input: s = "aabaa", cost = [1,2,3,4,1]
Output: 2
Explanation: Delete the first and the last character, getting the string ("aba").

Constraints:

s.length == cost.length
1 <= s.length, cost.length <= 10^5
1 <= cost[i] <= 10^4
s contains only lowercase English letters.

Solution: Group by group

For a group of same letters, delete all expect the one with the highest cost.

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

C++

class Solution {

public:

int minCost(string s, vector<int>& cost) {

int t = cost[0];

int m = cost[0];

int ans = 0;

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

if (s[i] != s[i - 1]) {

ans += t - m;

t = m = 0;

}

t += cost[i];

m = max(m, cost[i]);

}

return ans + (t - m);

}

};

python3

class Solution:

def minCost(self, s: str, cost: List[int]) -> int:

s = '*' + s + '*'

cost = [0] + cost + [0]

ans = t = m = 0

for i in range(1, len(s)):

if s[i] != s[i - 1]:

ans += t - m

t = m = 0

t += cost[i]

m = max(m, cost[i])

return ans

花花酱 LeetCode 1576. Replace All ?’s to Avoid Consecutive Repeating Characters

By zxi on September 5, 2020

Given a string s containing only lower case English letters and the ‘?’ character, convert all the ‘?’ characters into lower case letters such that the final string does not contain any consecutive repeating characters. You cannot modify the non ‘?’ characters.

It is guaranteed that there are no consecutive repeating characters in the given string except for ‘?’.

Return the final string after all the conversions (possibly zero) have been made. If there is more than one solution, return any of them. It can be shown that an answer is always possible with the given constraints.

Example 1:

Input: s = "?zs"
Output: "azs"
Explanation: There are 25 solutions for this problem. From "azs" to "yzs", all are valid. Only "z" is an invalid modification as the string will consist of consecutive repeating characters in "zzs".

Example 2:

Input: s = "ubv?w"
Output: "ubvaw"
Explanation: There are 24 solutions for this problem. Only "v" and "w" are invalid modifications as the strings will consist of consecutive repeating characters in "ubvvw" and "ubvww".

Example 3:

Input: s = "j?qg??b"
Output: "jaqgacb"

Example 4:

Input: s = "??yw?ipkj?"
Output: "acywaipkja"

Constraints:

1 <= s.length <= 100
s contains only lower case English letters and ‘?’.

Solution: Greedy

For each ?, find the first one among ‘abc’ that is not same as left or right.

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

C++

class Solution {

public:

string modifyString(string s) {

const int n = s.length();

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

if (s[i] != '?') continue;

for (char c : "abc")

if ((i == 0 || s[i - 1] != c) && (i == n - 1 || s[i + 1] != c)) {

s[i] = c;

break;

}

return s;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1556. Thousand Separator

By zxi on August 22, 2020

Given an integer n, add a dot (“.”) as the thousands separator and return it in string format.

Example 1:

Input: n = 987
Output: "987"

Example 2:

Input: n = 1234
Output: "1.234"

Example 3:

Input: n = 123456789
Output: "123.456.789"

Example 4:

Input: n = 0
Output: "0"

Constraints:

0 <= n < 2^31

Solution: Digit by digit

Time complexity: O(log^2(n)) -> O(logn)
Space complexity: O(log(n))

C++

class Solution {

public:

string thousandSeparator(int n) {

string ans;

int count = 0;

do {

if (count++ % 3 == 0 && ans.size())

ans = "." + ans;

ans = to_string(n % 10) + ans;

n /= 10;

} while (n);

return ans;

}

};