题目地址:https://leetcode.com/problems/ransom-note/?tab=Description
Given an arbitrary ransom note string and another string containing letters from all the magazines, write a function that will return true if the ransom note can be constructed from the magazines ; otherwise, it will return false.
Each letter in the magazine string can only be used once in your ransom note.
Note:
You may assume that both strings contain only lowercase letters.
canConstruct(“a”, “b”) -> false
canConstruct(“aa”, “ab”) -> false
canConstruct(“aa”, “aab”) -> true
像堆积木一样,ransomNote
相当于结果,magazine
相当于原料,原料提供的决不能比结果所需原料的量要少,那我们可以分别对ransomNote
的需要的“原料”与magazine
提供的“原料”进行统计,然后做对比即可:
public class RansomNote {
public static boolean canConstruct(String ransomNote, String magazine) {
if (ransomNote.length() > magazine.length())
return false;
if (ransomNote.length() == 0)
return true;
Map<Character, Integer> ransomNodeMap = new HashMap<>();
Map<Character, Integer> magazineMap = new HashMap<>();
for (int i = 0; i < ransomNote.length(); i++) {
if (!ransomNodeMap.containsKey(ransomNote.charAt(i))) {
ransomNodeMap.put(ransomNote.charAt(i), 1);
} else {
ransomNodeMap.put(ransomNote.charAt(i), ransomNodeMap.get(ransomNote.charAt(i)) + 1);
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < magazine.length(); i++) {
if (!magazineMap.containsKey(magazine.charAt(i))) {
magazineMap.put(magazine.charAt(i), 1);
} else {
magazineMap.put(magazine.charAt(i), magazineMap.get(magazine.charAt(i)) + 1);
}
}
for (Map.Entry entry : ransomNodeMap.entrySet()) {
if (!magazineMap.containsKey(entry.getKey()))
return false;
if ((int)entry.getValue() > magazineMap.get(entry.getKey()))
return false;
}
return true;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(canConstruct("affbba", "aaaabbbbfff"));
}
}
如果不算映射到map所花费的时间,那么这个方法的总时间复杂度略大于m+n。
虽然可行,但是效率略低,应该想一个更好的办法……