problem:
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.
Hash Table Two Pointers Stringthinking:
(1)思路很简单,双指针思想,尾指针不断往后搜索,直到包含字符串T,收缩头指针。记录尾头指针间距最小的位置,输出
code:
class Solution {
private:
int count1[256];
int count2[256];
public:
string minWindow(string S, string T) {
if (T.size() == 0 || S.size() == 0)
return "";
memset(count1, 0, sizeof(count1));
memset(count2, 0, sizeof(count2));
for(int i = 0; i < T.size(); i++)
{
count1[T[i]]++;
count2[T[i]]++;
}
int count = T.size();
int start = 0;
int minSize = INT_MAX;
int minStart;
for(int end = 0; end < S.size(); end++)
{
if (count2[S[end]] > 0)
{
count1[S[end]]--;
if (count1[S[end]] >= 0)
count--;
}
if (count == 0)
{
while(true)
{
if (count2[S[start]] > 0)
{
if (count1[S[start]] < 0)
count1[S[start]]++;
else
break;
}
start++;
}
if (minSize > end - start + 1)
{
minSize = end - start + 1;
minStart = start;
}
}
}
if (minSize == INT_MAX)
return "";
string ret(S, minStart, minSize);
return ret;
}
};