Given a list of words, we may encode it by writing a reference string S and a list of indexes A.
For example, if the list of words is [“time”, “me”, “bell”], we can write it as S = “time#bell#” and indexes = [0, 2, 5].
Then for each index, we will recover the word by reading from the reference string from that index until we reach a “#” character.
What is the length of the shortest reference string S possible that encodes the given words?
Example:
Input: words = [“time”, “me”, “bell”]
Output: 10
Explanation: S = “time#bell#” and indexes = [0, 2, 5].
Note:
1 <= words.length <= 2000.
1 <= words[i].length <= 7.
Each word has only lowercase letters.
字符串编码,程序如下所示:
class Solution {
public int minimumLengthEncoding(String[] words) {
Set<String> set = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(words));
for (String s : words){
int len = s.length();
for (int i = 1; i < len; ++ i){
String t = s.substring(i);
if (set.contains(t)){
set.remove(t);
}
}
}
int cnt = 0;
for (String s : set){
cnt += s.length() + 1;
}
return cnt;
}
}