In a string S of lowercase letters, these letters form consecutive groups of the same character.
For example, a string like S = “abbxxxxzyy” has the groups “a”, “bb”, “xxxx”, “z” and “yy”.
Call a group large if it has 3 or more characters. We would like the starting and ending positions of every large group.
The final answer should be in lexicographic order.
Example 1:
Input: "abbxxxxzzy"
Output: [[3,6]]
Explanation: "xxxx" is the single large group with starting 3 and ending positions 6.
Example 2:
Input: "abc"
Output: []
Explanation: We have "a","b" and "c" but no large group.
Example 3:
Input: "abcdddeeeeaabbbcd"
Output: [[3,5],[6,9],[12,14]]
Note: 1 <= S.length <= 1000
** 思路**
本题思路较为简单,在一遍遍历时,进行标记就可以。
设置两个标记点,start,end.
start,end首先给值为0,然后从index为1开始遍历,每次判断时,判断当前[index]和[start]是否相同。
相同:end = index,表示仍为相同的字符。
不同:表示和之前字符不同,求end和start差值,>=3,则将start,end放入vector,找到一个满意的结果。
class Solution {
public:
vector<vector<int>> largeGroupPositions(string S) {
int start=0,end=0;
vector<vector<int>>res;
if(S.size()<=1)return res;
int i;
for( i=1;i<S.size();i++){
//cout<<S[start]<<" "<<end<<" "<<S[i]<<endl;
if(S[i]==S[start]){
//cout<<"same"<<endl;
end = i;
}else{
if(end-start>=2){
vector<int>e;
e.push_back(start);
e.push_back(end);
res.push_back(e);
}
start = i;
end = start;
}
}
if(end-start>=2){
vector<int>e;
e.push_back(start);
e.push_back(end);
res.push_back(e);
}
return res;
}
};
注意:第一次没有考虑到当到达末尾时仍然是满足的情况,比如"aaa",不会存在字符变化然后判断end-start的问题。
改进:在for循环遍历之后,再最后判断一次end-start的值,判断尾部边界的情况。
if(end-start>=2){
vector<int>e;
e.push_back(start);
e.push_back(end);
res.push_back(e);
}