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花花酱 LeetCode 1160. Find Words That Can Be Formed by Characters

By zxi on August 17, 2019

You are given an array of strings words and a string chars.

A string is good if it can be formed by characters from chars (each character can only be used once).

Return the sum of lengths of all good strings in words.

Example 1:

Input: words = ["cat","bt","hat","tree"], chars = "atach"
Output: 6
Explanation: 
The strings that can be formed are "cat" and "hat" so the answer is 3 + 3 = 6.

Example 2:

Input: words = ["hello","world","leetcode"], chars = "welldonehoneyr"
Output: 10
Explanation: 
The strings that can be formed are "hello" and "world" so the answer is 5 + 5 = 10.

Note:

1 <= words.length <= 1000
1 <= words[i].length, chars.length <= 100
All strings contain lowercase English letters only.

Solution: Hashtable

Use a hashtable to store each letter’s frequency of the string and compare that with each word.

Time complexity: O(n + sum(len(word))
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua, 72 ms, 20 MB

class Solution {

public:

int countCharacters(vector<string>& words, string chars) {

vector<int> counts(26);

for (char c : chars) ++counts[c - 'a'];

int ans = 0;

for (const string& word : words) {

vector<int> cur(26);

bool valid = true;

for (char c: word)

if (++cur[c - 'a'] > counts[c - 'a']) {

valid = false;

break;

}

if (valid) ans += word.length();

}

return ans;

}

};

Python#

# Author: Huahua

class Solution:

def countCharacters(self, words: List[str], chars: str) -> int:

counts = collections.Counter(chars)

def isValid(word):

cur = collections.Counter(word)

for c in cur:

if c not in counts or cur[c] > counts[c]:

return False

return True

ans = 0

for word in words:

ans += len(word) if isValid(word) else 0

return ans

花花酱 LeetCode 1156. Swap For Longest Repeated Character Substring

By zxi on August 11, 2019

Given a string text, we are allowed to swap two of the characters in the string. Find the length of the longest substring with repeated characters.

Example 1:

Input: text = "ababa"
Output: 3
Explanation: We can swap the first 'b' with the last 'a', or the last 'b' with the first 'a'. Then, the longest repeated character substring is "aaa", which its length is 3.

Example 2:

Input: text = "aaabaaa"
Output: 6
Explanation: Swap 'b' with the last 'a' (or the first 'a'), and we get longest repeated character substring "aaaaaa", which its length is 6.

Example 3:

Input: text = "aaabbaaa"
Output: 4

Example 4:

Input: text = "aaaaa"
Output: 5
Explanation: No need to swap, longest repeated character substring is "aaaaa", length is 5.

Example 5:

Input: text = "abcdef"
Output: 1

Constraints:

1 <= text.length <= 20000
text consist of lowercase English characters only.

Solution: HashTable

Pre-processing

Compute the longest repeated substring starts and ends with text[i].
Count the frequency of each letter.

Main

Loop through each letter
Check the left and right letter
- if they are the same, len = left + right
  - e.g1. “aa c aaa [b] aaaa” => len = 3 + 4 = 7
- if they are not the same, len = max(left, right)
  - e.g2. “aa [b] ccc d c” => len = max(2, 3) = 3
If the letter occurs more than len times, we can always find an extra one and swap it with the current letter => ++len
- e.g.1, count[“a”] = 9 > 7, len = 7 + 1 = 8
- e.g.2, count[“c”] = 4 > 3, len = 3 + 1 = 4

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int maxRepOpt1(string text) {

int n = text.length();

// Length of repeted substring ends with text[i]

vector<vector<int>> len1(n, vector<int>(26));

// Length of repeated substring starts with text[i]

vector<vector<int>> len2(n, vector<int>(26));

vector<int> counts(26);

int last = -1; // not a letter

int l = 0;

int ans = 0;

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

const int c = text[i] - 'a';

if (c == last) {

++l;

} else {

last = c;

l = 1;

}

len1[i][c] = l;

len2[i - l + 1][c] = l;

++counts[c];

ans = max(ans, l);

}

for (int i = 1; i < n - 1; ++i) {

int cl = text[i - 1] - 'a';

int cr = text[i + 1] - 'a';

int left = len1[i - 1][cl];

int right = len2[i + 1][cr];

int count = 0;

if (cl != cr) {

// e.g. "c aaa b cccc" => "b aaa ccccc"

count = max(left + (counts[cl] > left ? 1 : 0),

right + (counts[cr] > right ? 1 : 0));

} else {

// e.g. "a c aaa b aaaa" => "b c aaaaaaaa"

count = left + right;

if (counts[cl] > count) ++count;

}

ans = max(ans, count);

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1154. Day of the Year

By zxi on August 11, 2019

Given a string date representing a Gregorian calendar date formatted as YYYY-MM-DD, return the day number of the year.

Example 1:

Input: date = "2019-01-09"
Output: 9
Explanation: Given date is the 9th day of the year in 2019.

Example 2:

Input: date = "2019-02-10"
Output: 41

Example 3:

Input: date = "2003-03-01"
Output: 60

Example 4:

Input: date = "2004-03-01"
Output: 61

Constraints:

date.length == 10
date[4] == date[7] == '-', and all other date[i]‘s are digits
date represents a calendar date between Jan 1st, 1900 and Dec 31, 2019.

Solution:

Key: checking whether that year is a leap year or not.
is_leap = (year % 4 == 0 and year % 100 !=0) or year % 400 == 0

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

Python

# Author: Huahua

class Solution:

def dayOfYear(self, date: str) -> int:

y, m, d = int(date.split("-")[0]), int(date.split("-")[1]), int(date.split("-")[2])

leap = (y % 4 == 0 and y % 100 != 0) or y % 400 == 0

days = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31]

s = sum(days[0:m-1]) + d

if leap and m > 2: s += 1

return s

花花酱 LeetCode 1138. Alphabet Board Path

By zxi on July 27, 2019

On an alphabet board, we start at position (0, 0), corresponding to character board[0][0].

Here, board = ["abcde", "fghij", "klmno", "pqrst", "uvwxy", "z"].

We may make the following moves:

'U' moves our position up one row, if the square exists;
'D' moves our position down one row, if the square exists;
'L' moves our position left one column, if the square exists;
'R' moves our position right one column, if the square exists;
'!' adds the character board[r][c] at our current position (r, c) to the answer.

Return a sequence of moves that makes our answer equal to target in the minimum number of moves. You may return any path that does so.

Example 1:

Input: target = "leet"
Output: "DDR!UURRR!!DDD!"

Example 2:

Input: target = "code"
Output: "RR!DDRR!UUL!R!"

Constraints:

1 <= target.length <= 100
target consists only of English lowercase letters.

Solution: Manhattan walk

Compute the coordinates of each char, walk from (x1, y1) to (x2, y2) in Manhattan way.
Be aware of the last row, we can only walk on ‘z’, so go left and up first if needed.

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

string alphabetBoardPath(string target) {

vector<vector<string>> paths(26, vector<string>(26));

for (int s = 0; s < 26; ++s)

for (int t = 0; t < 26; ++t) {

int dx = t % 5 - s % 5;

int dy = t / 5 - s / 5;

string path;

while (dx < 0) { path.push_back('L'); dx++; }

while (dy < 0) { path.push_back('U'); dy++; }

while (dx > 0) { path.push_back('R'); dx--; }

while (dy > 0) { path.push_back('D'); dy--; }

paths[s][t] = path;

}

char l = 'a';

string ans;

for (char c : target) {

ans += paths[l - 'a'][c - 'a'] + "!";

l = c;

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1108. Defanging an IP Address

By zxi on July 11, 2019

Given a valid (IPv4) IP address, return a defanged version of that IP address.

A defanged IP address replaces every period "." with "[.]".

Example 1:

Input: address = "1.1.1.1"
Output: "1[.]1[.]1[.]1"

Example 2:

Input: address = "255.100.50.0"
Output: "255[.]100[.]50[.]0"

Constraints:

The given address is a valid IPv4 address.

Solution: String

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

C++

class Solution {

public:

string defangIPaddr(string address) {

string output;

for (const char c : address) {

if (c == '.') output += "[.]";

else output += c;

}

return output;

}

};