Short Problem Definition:
A weighted string is a string of lowercase English letters where each letter has a weight. Character weights are 1 to 26 from a to z…
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Complexity:
time complexity is O(N)
space complexity is O(N)
Execution:
Parsing the string for every query is suboptimal, so I first preprocess the string. Now we know that uniform strings contain the same characters. A string can be of length 1. Do a single pass of the string and create all uniform substrings.
Solution:
def weightedUniformStrings(s, queries):
weights = set()
prev = -1
length = 0
for c in s:
weight = ord(c) - ord('a') + 1
weights.add(weight)
if prev == c:
length += 1
weights.add(length*weight)
else:
prev = c
length = 1
rval = []
for q in queries:
if q in weights:
rval.append("Yes")
else:
rval.append("No")
return rval