Minimize String length by deleting Substring of same character when K flips are allowed
Given a binary string consisting of β0β and β1β only and an integer K, the task is to minimize the string as far as possible by deleting a substring of the same character, when you can flip at most K characters.
Examples:
Input: S = β0110β, K = 2
Output: 0
Explanation: We can make two β0β s into β1β or vice versa.
So we can delete all the four characters and
the remaining size of the string is 0Input: S = β111β, K = 1
Output: 0
Approach: To solve the problem follow the below idea:
As we have to minimize the string by deleting characters so we have to delete the maximum length of substring consisting of equal letters. So, we can understand the minimum length will range from 1 to the size of the string(letβs say n).
Now if we apply binary search on this range of length and check for a shorter length until it is out of range, we can get the answer.
Follow the steps to solve the problem:
- At first, for the binary search, we will define our range from Low = 1 to High = n(size of string).
- Then after finding the mid we will keep passing the mid to check function to get one of the possible answers and keep incrementing the low to mid+1 as we want the maximum length
- In the check function, first, we will create an array of sizes to 2 to count β0β and β1β.
- Then, we will count β0β and β1β and store in that count array, and if the minimum of the count of both elements is less than K that means we can change those characters to the same character to increase the goodness of the string.
- After that will slide the window by mid(limit) size and decrease the count of the first element of the window as the window is not there anymore and increase the count of the new element as it is the new and last element of the window
- Now, we will check again the minimum of the count of β0β s and β1βs, if it is less than or equals to K, then return true otherwise false
- We will store every possible answer to the ans variable and when low ? high the loop will terminate and we have our maximum possible length for deletion stored in ans variable.
- Now we will subtract the maximum length from the size of the array to get the size of our minimized string
Below is the implementation for the above approach.
C++
// C++ code for the above approach: #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; bool check(string s, int K, int limit) { // Count array for counting // '0's and '1's int count[2] = { 0 }; // Counting '0' and '1's in // window size for ( int i = 0; i < limit; i++) { count[s[i] - '0' ]++; } // If the minimum of '0's count and // '1's count less than or equals to // k it is one of the possible // answer, return true if (K >= min(count[0], count[1])) return true ; // Sliding the window for ( int i = 0; i + limit < s.size(); i++) { // Decrementing the count of first // element as window is slided count[s[i] - '0' ]--; // Incrementing the count of new // element as this is the last // element of new window count[s[i + limit] - '0' ]++; // Checking the minimum count of // '0's and '1's because it is // the new window if (K >= min(count[0], count[1])) return true ; } // If the above conditions are not // fulfilled return false return false ; } void solve(string s, int n, int K) { // Defining range 1 to n int Low = 1, High = n; // Initializing ans to 0 int ans = 0; while (Low <= High) { // Calculating mid int mid = Low + (High - Low) / 2; // Passing the mid to // check function if (check(s, K, mid)) { // We got one of the possible // answers so storing it in // ans variable ans = max(ans, mid); // Also incrementing the low // to check whether there is // any maximum length string // with maximum goodness // present or not Low = mid + 1; } else { // Decrementing the high High = mid - 1; } } // Printing the ans cout << "Minimum length after deletion is: " ; int res = n - ans; cout << res; } // Driver Code int main() { // Given input string s = "0110" ; int K = 2; int n = s.size(); // Function call solve(s, n, K); return 0; } |
Java
// Java implementation of the approach import java.io.*; class GFG { static boolean check(String s, int K, int limit) { // Count array for counting // '0's and '1's int [] count = new int [ 2 ]; // Counting '0' and '1's in // window size for ( int i = 0 ; i < limit; i++) { count[s.charAt(i) - '0' ]++; } // If the minimum of '0's count and // '1's count less than or equals to // k it is one of the possible // answer, return true if (K >= Math.min(count[ 0 ], count[ 1 ])) return true ; // Sliding the window for ( int i = 0 ; i + limit < s.length(); i++) { // Decrementing the count of first // element as window is slided count[s.charAt(i) - '0' ]--; // Incrementing the count of new // element as this is the last // element of new window count[s.charAt(i + limit) - '0' ]++; // Checking the minimum count of // '0's and '1's because it is // the new window if (K >= Math.min(count[ 0 ], count[ 1 ])) return true ; } // If the above conditions are not // fulfilled return false return false ; } static void solve(String s, int n, int K) { // Defining range 1 to n int Low = 1 , High = n; // Initializing ans to 0 int ans = 0 ; while (Low <= High) { // Calculating mid int mid = Low + (High - Low) / 2 ; // Passing the mid to // check function if (check(s, K, mid)) { // We got one of the possible // answers so storing it in // ans variable ans = Math.max(ans, mid); // Also incrementing the low // to check whether there is // any maximum length string // with maximum goodness // present or not Low = mid + 1 ; } else { // Decrementing the high High = mid - 1 ; } } // Printing the ans System.out.print( "Minimum length after deletion is: " ); int res = n - ans; System.out.println(res); } public static void main(String[] args) { // Given input String s = "0110" ; int K = 2 ; int n = s.length(); // Function call solve(s, n, K); } } // This code is contributed by lokeshmvs21. |
Python3
# python3 code for the above approach: def check(s, K, limit) : # Count array for counting # '0's and '1's count = [ 0 , 0 ] # Counting '0' and '1's in # window size # for (i=0 i < limit i++): for i in range ( 0 ,limit): count[ int (s[i])] + = 1 # If the minimum of '0's count and # '1's count less than or equals to # k it is one of the possible # answer, return true if (K > = min (count[ 0 ],count[ 1 ])): return True # Sliding the window for i in range ( 0 ,( len (s) - limit)): count[s[i] - '0' ] - = 1 # Decrementing the count of first # element as window is slided # Incrementing the count of new # element as this is the last # element of new window count[s[i + limit] - '0' ] + = 1 # Checking the minimum count of # '0's and '1's because it is # the new window if (K > = min (count[ 0 ], count[ 1 ])): return True # If the above conditions are not # fulfilled return false return False def solve(s, n, K): # Defining range 1 to n Low = 1 High = n # Initializing ans to 0 ans = 0 while (Low < = High): # Calculating mid mid = int (Low + (High - Low) / 2 ) # Passing the mid to # check function if (check(s, K, mid) is True ) : # We got one of the possible # answers so storing it in # ans variable ans = max (ans, mid) # Also incrementing the low # to check whether there is # any maximum length string # with maximum goodness # present or not Low = mid + 1 else : # Decrementing the high High = mid - 1 # Printing the ans res = n - ans print ( "Minimum length after deletion is:" ,res) # Driver Code # Given input s = "0110" K = 2 n = len (s) # Function call solve(s, n, K) # this code is contributed by ksam24000 |
C#
// C# implementation of the approach using System; using System.Collections.Generic; class GFG { static bool check( string s, int K, int limit) { // Count array for counting // '0's and '1's int [] count = new int [2]; // Counting '0' and '1's in // window size for ( int i = 0; i < limit; i++) { count[s[i] - '0' ]++; } // If the minimum of '0's count and // '1's count less than or equals to // k it is one of the possible // answer, return true if (K >= Math.Min(count[0], count[1])) return true ; // Sliding the window for ( int i = 0; i + limit < s.Length; i++) { // Decrementing the count of first // element as window is slided count[s[i] - '0' ]--; // Incrementing the count of new // element as this is the last // element of new window count[s[i + limit] - '0' ]++; // Checking the minimum count of // '0's and '1's because it is // the new window if (K >= Math.Min(count[0], count[1])) return true ; } // If the above conditions are not // fulfilled return false return false ; } static void solve( string s, int n, int K) { // Defining range 1 to n int Low = 1, High = n; // Initializing ans to 0 int ans = 0; while (Low <= High) { // Calculating mid int mid = Low + (High - Low) / 2; // Passing the mid to // check function if (check(s, K, mid)) { // We got one of the possible // answers so storing it in // ans variable ans = Math.Max(ans, mid); // Also incrementing the low // to check whether there is // any maximum length string // with maximum goodness // present or not Low = mid + 1; } else { // Decrementing the high High = mid - 1; } } // Printing the ans Console.Write( "Minimum length after deletion is: " ); int res = n - ans; Console.WriteLine(res); } // Driver code public static void Main(String[] args) { // Given input string s = "0110" ; int K = 2; int n = s.Length; // Function call solve(s, n, K); } } // This code is contributed by code_hunt. |
Javascript
// JS code for the above approach: function check(s, K, limit) { // Count array for counting // '0's and '1's let count = [0, 0]; // Counting '0' and '1's in // window size for (let i = 0; i < limit; i++) { count[s[i] - '0' ] = count[s[i] - '0' ] + 1; } // If the minimum of '0's count and // '1's count less than or equals to // k it is one of the possible // answer, return true if (K >= Math.min(count[0], count[1])) return true ; // Sliding the window for (let i = 0; i + limit < s.length; i++) { // Decrementing the count of first // element as window is slided count[s[i] - '0' ]--; // Incrementing the count of new // element as this is the last // element of new window count[s[i + limit] - '0' ]++; // Checking the minimum count of // '0's and '1's because it is // the new window if (K >= Math.min(count[0], count[1])) return true ; } // If the above conditions are not // fulfilled return false return false ; } function solve(s, n, K) { // Defining range 1 to n let Low = 1, High = n; // Initializing ans to 0 let ans = 0; while (Low <= High) { // Calculating mid let mid = Math.floor(Low + (High - Low) / 2); console.log( "mid : " , mid); // Passing the mid to // check function if (check(s, K, mid)) { // We got one of the possible // answers so storing it in // ans variable ans = Math.max(ans, mid); // Also incrementing the low // to check whether there is // any maximum length string // with maximum goodness // present or not Low = mid + 1; } else { // Decrementing the high High = mid - 1; } } // Printing the ans let res = n - ans; console.log( "Minimum length after deletion is:" , res); } // Driver Code // Given input let s = "0110" ; let K = 2; let n = s.length; // Function call solve(s, n, K); // This code is contributed by adityamaharshi21 |
Minimum length after deletion is: 0
Time Complexity: O(N * logN), as the size of the string, is N and we are applying binary search that has logN complexity. So complexity O(N*logN).
Auxiliary Space: O(1)