There are N children standing in a line. Each child is assigned a rating value.
You are giving candies to these children subjected to the following requirements:
- Each child must have at least one candy.
- Children with a higher rating get more candies than their neighbors.
What is the minimum candies you must give?
Example 1:
Input: [1,0,2] Output: 5 Explanation: You can allocate to the first, second and third child with 2, 1, 2 candies respectively.
Example 2:
Input: [1,2,2] Output: 4 Explanation: You can allocate to the first, second and third child with 1, 2, 1 candies respectively. The third child gets 1 candy because it satisfies the above two conditions.
class Solution {
public:
int candy(vector<int>& ratings) {
if (ratings.empty())
return 0;
int n = ratings.size();
vector<int> res(n, 1);
for (int i = 0; i < n-1; i ++) {
if (ratings[i] < ratings[i+1])
res[i+1] = res[i] + 1;
}
for (int i = n-1; i > 0; i --) {
if (ratings[i-1] > ratings[i])
res[i-1] = max(res[i]+1, res[i-1]);
}
return accumulate(res.begin(),res.end(),0);
}
};