Task description
A DNA sequence can be represented as a string consisting of the letters A, C, G and T, which correspond to the types of successive nucleotides in the sequence. Each nucleotide has an impact factor, which is an integer. Nucleotides of types A, C, G and T have impact factors of 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. You are going to answer several queries of the form: What is the minimal impact factor of nucleotides contained in a particular part of the given DNA sequence?
The DNA sequence is given as a non-empty string S = S[0]S[1]...S[N-1] consisting of N characters. There are M queries, which are given in non-empty arrays P and Q, each consisting of M integers. The K-th query (0 ≤ K < M) requires you to find the minimal impact factor of nucleotides contained in the DNA sequence between positions P[K] and Q[K] (inclusive).
For example, consider string S = CAGCCTA and arrays P, Q such that:
P[0] = 2 Q[0] = 4 P[1] = 5 Q[1] = 5 P[2] = 0 Q[2] = 6
The answers to these M = 3 queries are as follows:
- The part of the DNA between positions 2 and 4 contains nucleotides G and C (twice), whose impact factors are 3 and 2 respectively, so the answer is 2.
- The part between positions 5 and 5 contains a single nucleotide T, whose impact factor is 4, so the answer is 4.
- The part between positions 0 and 6 (the whole string) contains all nucleotides, in particular nucleotide Awhose impact factor is 1, so the answer is 1.
Write a function:
class Solution { public int[] solution(String S, int[] P, int[] Q); }
that, given a non-empty string S consisting of N characters and two non-empty arrays P and Q consisting of M integers, returns an array consisting of M integers specifying the consecutive answers to all queries.
The sequence should be returned as:
- a Results structure (in C), or
- a vector of integers (in C++), or
- a Results record (in Pascal), or
- an array of integers (in any other programming language).
For example, given the string S = CAGCCTA and arrays P, Q such that:
P[0] = 2 Q[0] = 4 P[1] = 5 Q[1] = 5 P[2] = 0 Q[2] = 6
the function should return the values [2, 4, 1], as explained above.
Assume that:
- N is an integer within the range [1..100,000];
- M is an integer within the range [1..50,000];
- each element of arrays P, Q is an integer within the range [0..N − 1];
- P[K] ≤ Q[K], where 0 ≤ K < M;
- string S consists only of upper-case English letters A, C, G, T.
Complexity:
- expected worst-case time complexity is O(N+M);
- expected worst-case space complexity is O(N), beyond input storage (not counting the storage required for input arguments).
Solution:
def solution(S,P,Q):
S=list(S)
lenp = len(P)
l= []
for index,value in enumerate(S):
if value == 'A':
S[index] = 1
elif value == 'C':
S[index] = 2
elif value == 'G':
S[index] = 3
elif value == 'T':
S[index] = 4
for i in range(lenp):#0,1,2
if len(S[P[i]:Q[i]+1]) :
minv = min(S[P[i]:Q[i]+1])
l.append(minv)
return l