Given a string s and a string t, check if s is subsequence of t.
You may assume that there is only lower case English letters in both s and t. t is potentially a very long (length ~= 500,000) string, and s is a short string (<=100).
A subsequence of a string is a new string which is formed from the original string by deleting some (can be none) of the characters without disturbing the relative positions of the remaining characters. (ie, “ace” is a subsequence of “abcde” while “aec” is not).
Example 1:
s = “abc”, t = “ahbgdc”
Return true.
Example 2:
s = “axc”, t = “ahbgdc”
Return false.
Follow up:
If there are lots of incoming S, say S1, S2, … , Sk where k >= 1B, and you want to check one by one to see if T has its subsequence. In this scenario, how would you change your code?
Credits:
Special thanks to @pbrother for adding this problem and creating all test cases.
思路:先看有没有第一个字母,然后看第一个字母的索引后有没有第二个字母……
public boolean isSubsequence(String s, String t) {
if(s == null || s.length() == 0) return true;
if(t.indexOf(s.charAt(0)) == -1) return false;
int pos = t.indexOf(s.charAt(0));
for(int i = 1; i < s.length(); i++){
int idx = t.indexOf(s.charAt(i), pos+1);
if(idx == -1) return false;
pos = idx;
}
return true;
}