leetcode 395. Longest Substring with At Least K Repeating Characters

Find the length of the longest substring T of a given string (consists of lowercase letters only) such that every character in T appears no less than k times.

Example 1:

Input:
s = "aaabb", k = 3

Output:
3

The longest substring is "aaa", as 'a' is repeated 3 times.

Example 2:

Input:
s = "ababbc", k = 2

Output:
5

The longest substring is "ababb", as 'a' is repeated 2 times and 'b' is repeated 3 times.

转

public class Solution {
    public int longestSubstring(String s, int k) {
        return dc(s, 0, s.length(), k);
    }
    
    public int dc(String s, int start, int end, int k) {
        if (end - start < k) return 0;
        int[] cnt = new int[26];
        for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
            cnt[s.charAt(i) - 'a']++;
        }
        for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
            if (cnt[s.charAt(i) - 'a'] < k) {
                return Math.max(dc(s, start, i, k), dc(s, i + 1, end, k));
            }
        }
        return end - start;
    }
}