[LeetCode] 1234. Replace the Substring for Balanced String 替换子串得到平衡字符串
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You are given a string containing only 4 kinds of characters 'Q',
'W', 'E'
and 'R'
.
A string is said to be balancedif each of its characters appears n/4
times where n
is the length of the string.
Return the minimum length of the substring that can be replaced with any other string of the same length to make the original string s
balanced.
Return 0 if the string is already balanced.
Example 1:
Input: s = "QWER"
Output: 0
Explanation: s is already balanced.
Example 2:
Input: s = "QQWE"
Output: 1
Explanation: We need to replace a 'Q' to 'R', so that "RQWE" (or "QRWE") is balanced.
Example 3:
Input: s = "QQQW"
Output: 2
Explanation: We can replace the first "QQ" to "ER".
Example 4:
Input: s = "QQQQ"
Output: 3
Explanation: We can replace the last 3 'Q' to make s = "QWER".
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 10^5
s.length
is a multiple of4
s
contains only'Q'
,'W'
,'E'
and'R'
.
这道题说是给了一个只包含 QWER 四种字符的字符串,博主强烈怀疑出题者是重度的撸啊撸玩家,四个技能的快捷键用的溜。现在定义了一种平衡状态,就是每个字符出现的次数相等,这里可以替换任意长度的子串,问可以将字符串变为平衡状态时需要替换的最短子串长度,若给定字符串已经是平衡状态了,则返回0。这道题限定了给定字符串的长度是4的倍数(不然无论怎么替换,都不可能使得字符个数相等),那么为了达到平衡状态,每个字符出现次数必须是 n/4。由于替换的必须是一个子串,所以必须整体来考虑,这种玩子串求极值的题,一般无非就是 DP 或者滑动窗口来做,这里 DP 显然不合适,没有明显的状态转移的关系。而滑动窗口 Sliding Window 就天然适合这道题,因为每个子串就是滑动窗口。由于子串中的字符可以任意替换,所以我们并不 care 子串里具体有啥字符,需要关心的是替换后能否使得所有字符个数相等,那么子串以外的字符的个数就很关键了。
若子串以外某个字母的个数超过了 n/4,则无论怎么替换子串内的字符,该字母个数也不会减少,永远无法达到平衡状态,所以只有当子串以外的每个字符的出现次数都小于等于 n/4,替换子串才可以达到平衡。这里首先用个 HashMap 来统计给定字符串中每个字母的出现次数,然后就可以开始滑动窗口了,用变量i来控制窗口的右边界,left 来控制左边界。每当右边界扩大一位,就要在 HashMap 中将该字母的映射值减1,因为需要统计窗口之外的字符出现次数。接下来用一个 while 循环来收缩窗口,一般的滑动窗口的左边界不能超过右边界,这里由于滑动窗口的大小可以是0,而且需要滑动窗口的大小越小越好,则左边界的限制条件可以改为 left 小于n,不用担心窗口大小为负,因为还有其他的限制条件,就是窗口以外的所有字符的出现次数均小于等于 n/4。满足这些条件的话,就可以用窗口长度来更新结果 res 了,此时缩小左边界,将其字母的映射值自增1,然后 left 自增1即可,参见代码如下:
class Solution {
public:
int balancedString(string s) {
int n = s.size(), res = n, left = 0, k = n / 4;
unordered_map<char, int> m;
for (char c : s) ++m[c];
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
--m[s[i]];
while (left < n && m['Q'] <= k && m['W'] <= k && m['E'] <= k && m['R'] <= k) {
res = min(res, i - left + 1);
++m[s[left++]];
}
}
return res;
}
};
Github 同步地址:
https://github.com/grandyang/leetcode/issues/1234
参考资料:
https://leetcode.com/problems/replace-the-substring-for-balanced-string/
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