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花花酱 LeetCode 2232. Minimize Result by Adding Parentheses to Expression

By zxi on April 9, 2022

You are given a 0-indexed string expression of the form "<num1>+<num2>" where <num1> and <num2> represent positive integers.

Add a pair of parentheses to expression such that after the addition of parentheses, expression is a valid mathematical expression and evaluates to the smallest possible value. The left parenthesis must be added to the left of '+' and the right parenthesis must be added to the right of '+'.

Return expression after adding a pair of parentheses such that expression evaluates to the smallest possible value. If there are multiple answers that yield the same result, return any of them.

The input has been generated such that the original value of expression, and the value of expression after adding any pair of parentheses that meets the requirements fits within a signed 32-bit integer.

Example 1:

Input: expression = "247+38"
Output: "2(47+38)"
Explanation: The expression evaluates to 2 * (47 + 38) = 2 * 85 = 170.
Note that "2(4)7+38" is invalid because the right parenthesis must be to the right of the '+'.
It can be shown that 170 is the smallest possible value.

Example 2:

Input: expression = "12+34"
Output: "1(2+3)4"
Explanation: The expression evaluates to 1 * (2 + 3) * 4 = 1 * 5 * 4 = 20.

Example 3:

Input: expression = "999+999"
Output: "(999+999)"
Explanation: The expression evaluates to 999 + 999 = 1998.

Constraints:

3 <= expression.length <= 10
expression consists of digits from '1' to '9' and '+'.
expression starts and ends with digits.
expression contains exactly one '+'.
The original value of expression, and the value of expression after adding any pair of parentheses that meets the requirements fits within a signed 32-bit integer.

Solution: Brute Force

Try all possible positions to add parentheses and evaluate the new expression.

Time complexity: O(n²)
Space complexity: O(n)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

string minimizeResult(string expression) {

const int n = expression.size();

auto p = expression.find('+');

int best = INT_MAX;

string ans;

for (int l = 0; l < p; ++l)

for (int r = p + 2; r < n + 1; ++r) {

const int m1 = l ? stoi(expression.substr(0, l)) : 1;

const int m2 = (r < n) ? stoi(expression.substr(r)) : 1;

const int n1 = stoi(expression.substr(l, p));

const int n2 = stoi(expression.substr(p + 1, r - p - 1));

const int cur = m1 * (n1 + n2) * m2;

if (cur < best) {

best = cur;

ans = expression;

ans.insert(l, "(");

ans.insert(r + 1, ")");

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 2227. Encrypt and Decrypt Strings

By zxi on April 3, 2022

You are given a character array keys containing unique characters and a string array values containing strings of length 2. You are also given another string array dictionary that contains all permitted original strings after decryption. You should implement a data structure that can encrypt or decrypt a 0-indexed string.

A string is encrypted with the following process:

For each character c in the string, we find the index i satisfying keys[i] == c in keys.
Replace c with values[i] in the string.

A string is decrypted with the following process:

For each substring s of length 2 occurring at an even index in the string, we find an i such that values[i] == s. If there are multiple valid i, we choose any one of them. This means a string could have multiple possible strings it can decrypt to.
Replace s with keys[i] in the string.

Implement the Encrypter class:

Encrypter(char[] keys, String[] values, String[] dictionary) Initializes the Encrypter class with keys, values, and dictionary.
String encrypt(String word1) Encrypts word1 with the encryption process described above and returns the encrypted string.
int decrypt(String word2) Returns the number of possible strings word2 could decrypt to that also appear in dictionary.

Example 1:

Input
["Encrypter", "encrypt", "decrypt"]
[[['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'], ["ei", "zf", "ei", "am"], ["abcd", "acbd", "adbc", "badc", "dacb", "cadb", "cbda", "abad"]], ["abcd"], ["eizfeiam"]]
Output

[null, “eizfeiam”, 2]

Explanation Encrypter encrypter = new Encrypter([[‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’], [“ei”, “zf”, “ei”, “am”], [“abcd”, “acbd”, “adbc”, “badc”, “dacb”, “cadb”, “cbda”, “abad”]); encrypter.encrypt(“abcd”); // return “eizfeiam”. // ‘a’ maps to “ei”, ‘b’ maps to “zf”, ‘c’ maps to “ei”, and ‘d’ maps to “am”. encrypter.decrypt(“eizfeiam”); // return 2. // “ei” can map to ‘a’ or ‘c’, “zf” maps to ‘b’, and “am” maps to ‘d’. // Thus, the possible strings after decryption are “abad”, “cbad”, “abcd”, and “cbcd”. // 2 of those strings, “abad” and “abcd”, appear in dictionary, so the answer is 2.

Constraints:

1 <= keys.length == values.length <= 26
values[i].length == 2
1 <= dictionary.length <= 100
1 <= dictionary[i].length <= 100
All keys[i] and dictionary[i] are unique.
1 <= word1.length <= 2000
1 <= word2.length <= 200
All word1[i] appear in keys.
word2.length is even.
keys, values[i], dictionary[i], word1, and word2 only contain lowercase English letters.
At most 200 calls will be made to encrypt and decrypt in total.

Solution:

For encryption, follow the instruction. Time complexity: O(len(word)) = O(2000)
For decryption, try all words in the dictionary and encrypt them and compare the encrypted string with the word to decrypt. Time complexity: O(sum(len(word_in_dict))) = O(100*100)

Worst case: 200 calls to decryption, T = 200 * O(100 * 100) = O(2*10⁶)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Encrypter {

public:

Encrypter(vector<char>& keys,

vector<string>& values,

vector<string>& dictionary):

vals(26),

dict(dictionary) {

for (size_t i = 0; i < keys.size(); ++i)

vals[keys[i] - 'a'] = values[i];

}

string encrypt(string word1) {

string ans;

for (char c : word1)

ans += vals[c - 'a'];

return ans;

}

int decrypt(string word2) {

return count_if(begin(dict), end(dict), [&](const string& w){

return encrypt(w) == word2;

});

}

private:

vector<string> vals;

vector<string> dict;

};

Optimization

Pre-compute answer for all the words in dictionary.

decrypt: Time complexity: O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Encrypter {

public:

Encrypter(vector<char>& keys,

vector<string>& values,

vector<string>& dictionary):

vals(26) {

for (size_t i = 0; i < keys.size(); ++i)

vals[keys[i] - 'a'] = values[i];

for (const string& w : dictionary)

++counts[encrypt(w)];

}

string encrypt(string word1) {

string ans;

for (char c : word1)

ans += vals[c - 'a'];

return ans;

}

int decrypt(string word2) {

auto it = counts.find(word2);

return it == counts.end() ? 0 : it->second;

}

private:

vector<string> vals;

unordered_map<string, int> counts;

};

花花酱 LeetCode 2224. Minimum Number of Operations to Convert Time

By zxi on April 2, 2022

You are given two strings current and correct representing two 24-hour times.

24-hour times are formatted as "HH:MM", where HH is between 00 and 23, and MM is between 00 and 59. The earliest 24-hour time is 00:00, and the latest is 23:59.

In one operation you can increase the time current by 1, 5, 15, or 60 minutes. You can perform this operation any number of times.

Return the minimum number of operations needed to convert current to correct.

Example 1:

Input: current = "02:30", correct = "04:35"
Output: 3
Explanation:
We can convert current to correct in 3 operations as follows:
- Add 60 minutes to current. current becomes "03:30".
- Add 60 minutes to current. current becomes "04:30".
- Add 5 minutes to current. current becomes "04:35".
It can be proven that it is not possible to convert current to correct in fewer than 3 operations.

Example 2:

Input: current = "11:00", correct = "11:01"
Output: 1
Explanation: We only have to add one minute to current, so the minimum number of operations needed is 1.

Constraints:

current and correct are in the format "HH:MM"
current <= correct

Solution: Greedy

Start with 60, then 15, 5 and finally increase 1 minute a time.

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int convertTime(string current, string correct) {

auto getMinute = [](string_view t) {

return (t[0] - '0') * 10 * 60

+ (t[1] - '0') * 60

+ (t[3] - '0') * 10

+ (t[4] - '0');

};

int t1 = getMinute(current);

int t2 = getMinute(correct);

int ans = 0;

for (int d : {60, 15, 5, 1})

while (t2 - t1 >= d) {

++ans;

t1 += d;

}

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 2223. Sum of Scores of Built Strings

By zxi on April 2, 2022

You are building a string s of length n one character at a time, prepending each new character to the front of the string. The strings are labeled from 1 to n, where the string with length i is labeled s_i.

For example, for s = "abaca", s₁ == "a", s₂ == "ca", s₃ == "aca", etc.

The score of s_i is the length of the longest common prefix between s_i and s_n (Note that s == s_n).

Given the final string s, return the sum of the score of every s_i.

Example 1:

Input: s = "babab"
Output: 9
Explanation:
For s₁ == "b", the longest common prefix is "b" which has a score of 1.
For s₂ == "ab", there is no common prefix so the score is 0.
For s₃ == "bab", the longest common prefix is "bab" which has a score of 3.
For s₄ == "abab", there is no common prefix so the score is 0.
For s₅ == "babab", the longest common prefix is "babab" which has a score of 5.
The sum of the scores is 1 + 0 + 3 + 0 + 5 = 9, so we return 9.

Example 2:

Input: s = "azbazbzaz"
Output: 14
Explanation: 
For s₂ == "az", the longest common prefix is "az" which has a score of 2.
For s₆ == "azbzaz", the longest common prefix is "azb" which has a score of 3.
For s₉ == "azbazbzaz", the longest common prefix is "azbazbzaz" which has a score of 9.
For all other s_i, the score is 0.
The sum of the scores is 2 + 3 + 9 = 14, so we return 14.

Constraints:

1 <= s.length <= 10⁵
s consists of lowercase English letters.

Solution: Z-Function

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

long long sumScores(string s) {

auto zFunc = [](string_view s) {

const int n = s.length();

vector<long long> z(n);

for (long long i = 1, l = 0, r = 0; i < n; ++i) {

if (i <= r)

z[i] = min(r - i + 1, z[i - l]);

while (i + z[i] < n && s[z[i]] == s[i + z[i]])

++z[i];

if (i + z[i] - 1 > r) {

l = i;

r = i + z[i] - 1;

}

return accumulate(begin(z), end(z), 0LL);

};

return zFunc(s) + s.length();

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 2194. Cells in a Range on an Excel Sheet

By zxi on March 8, 2022

A cell (r, c) of an excel sheet is represented as a string "<col><row>" where:

<col> denotes the column number c of the cell. It is represented by alphabetical letters.
- For example, the 1^st column is denoted by 'A', the 2^nd by 'B', the 3^rd by 'C', and so on.
<row> is the row number r of the cell. The r^th row is represented by the integer r.

You are given a string s in the format "<col1><row1>:<col2><row2>", where <col1> represents the column c1, <row1> represents the row r1, <col2> represents the column c2, and <row2> represents the row r2, such that r1 <= r2 and c1 <= c2.

Return the list of cells (x, y) such that r1 <= x <= r2 and c1 <= y <= c2. The cells should be represented as strings in the format mentioned above and be sorted in non-decreasing order first by columns and then by rows.

Example 1:

Input: s = "K1:L2"
Output: ["K1","K2","L1","L2"]
Explanation:
The above diagram shows the cells which should be present in the list.
The red arrows denote the order in which the cells should be presented.

Example 2:

Input: s = "A1:F1"
Output: ["A1","B1","C1","D1","E1","F1"]
Explanation:
The above diagram shows the cells which should be present in the list.
The red arrow denotes the order in which the cells should be presented.

Constraints:

s.length == 5
'A' <= s[0] <= s[3] <= 'Z'
'1' <= s[1] <= s[4] <= '9'
s consists of uppercase English letters, digits and ':'.

Solution: Brute Force

Time complexity: O((row2 – row1 + 1) * (col2 – col1 + 1))
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

vector<string> cellsInRange(string s) {

vector<string> ans;

for (char c = s[0]; c <= s[3]; ++c)

for (char r = s[1]; r <= s[4]; ++r)

ans.push_back(string{c, r});

return ans;

}

};