leetcode 76 Minimum Window Substring

Given a string S and a string T, find the minimum window in S which will contain all the characters in T in complexity O(n).

For example,
S = “ADOBECODEBANC”
T = “ABC”
Minimum window is “BANC”.

Note:
If there is no such window in S that covers all characters in T, return the emtpy string “”.

If there are multiple such windows, you are guaranteed that there will always be only one unique minimum window in S.

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代码

class Solution {
public:
    string minWindow(string s, string t) {
        if(s.length()<t.length()){
            return "";
        }

        //t中可能存在重复字符串，要统计每个字符的数目
        map<char,int> needToFind;
        map<char,int> hasFound;
        for(int i=0;i<t.length();i++){
            if(needToFind.find(t[i])!=needToFind.end()){
                needToFind[t[i]]+=1;
            }else{
                needToFind[t[i]]=1;
                hasFound[t[i]]=0;
            }
        }

        char c;
        string ret="";
        bool retValid=false;
        for(int count=0,begin=0,end=0;end<s.size();end++){
            c=s[end];
            //对s，只处理t中存在的字符，其他的字符直接忽略
            if(needToFind.find(c)!=needToFind.end()){
                //处理当前字符，更新count和hasFound
                if(hasFound[c]<needToFind[c]){
                    count++;
                }
                hasFound[c]++;
                //begin－end包含全部t的字符
                if(count==t.length()){
                    //先扔掉begin－end中：begin处，不是t中的和hasFound》needTofind
                    while(needToFind.find(s[begin])==needToFind.end() || hasFound[s[begin]]>needToFind[s[begin]]){
                        if(needToFind.find(s[begin])!=needToFind.end() && hasFound[s[begin]]>needToFind[s[begin]]){
                            hasFound[s[begin]]--;
                        }
                        begin++;
                    }
                    //检查这个子串是否是最短的
                    if(retValid==false){
                        retValid=true;
                        ret=s.substr(begin,end-begin+1);
                    }else if(end-begin+1 < ret.length()){
                        ret=s.substr(begin,end-begin+1);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return ret;
    }
};