944. Delete Columns to Make Sorted*

944. Delete Columns to Make Sorted*

https://leetcode.com/problems/delete-columns-to-make-sorted/

题目描述

We are given an array A of N lowercase letter strings, all of the same length.

Now, we may choose any set of deletion indices, and for each string, we delete all the characters in those indices.

For example, if we have an array A = ["abcdef","uvwxyz"] and deletion indices {0, 2, 3}, then the final array after deletions is ["bef", "vyz"], and the remaining columns of A are ["b","v"], ["e","y"], and ["f","z"]. (Formally, the c-th column is [A[0][c], A[1][c], ..., A[A.length-1][c]]).

Suppose we chose a set of deletion indices D such that after deletions, each remaining column in A is in non-decreasing sorted order.

Return the minimum possible value of D.length.

Example 1:

Input: A = ["cba","daf","ghi"]
Output: 1
Explanation: 
After choosing D = {1}, each column ["c","d","g"] and ["a","f","i"] are in non-decreasing sorted order.
If we chose D = {}, then a column ["b","a","h"] would not be in non-decreasing sorted order.

Example 2:

Input: A = ["a","b"]
Output: 0
Explanation: D = {}

Example 3:

Input: A = ["zyx","wvu","tsr"]
Output: 3
Explanation: D = {0, 1, 2}

Constraints:

• 1 <= A.length <= 100
• 1 <= A[i].length <= 1000

C++ 实现 1

比如将 A 弄成如下形式:

## 来自 Example 1
"cba"
"daf"
"ghi"

如果发现第 j 行的字母比它上一行的字母小, 那么说明这一列需要删除.

class Solution {
public:
    int minDeletionSize(vector<string>& A) {
        int N = A.size();
        int m = A[0].size();
        int res = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < m; ++ i) {
            for (int j = 1; j < N; ++ j) {
                if (A[j - 1][i] > A[j][i]) { // 后一行的字母更小, 即不是升序
                    ++ res;
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        return res;
    }
};