524. Longest Word in Dictionary through Deleting

524. Longest Word in Dictionary through Deleting

Given a string s and a string array dictionary, return the longest string in the dictionary that can be formed by deleting some of the given string characters. If there is more than one possible result, return the longest word with the smallest lexicographical order. If there is no possible result, return the empty string.

Example 1:

Input: s = "abpcplea", dictionary = ["ale","apple","monkey","plea"]
Output: "apple"

Example 2:

Input: s = "abpcplea", dictionary = ["a","b","c"]
Output: "a"

这里双指针用来判断是不是dictionary的子集，然后用一个比大小来遍历List就可以了。

class Solution {
    public String findLongestWord(String s, List<String> dictionary) {
        String longword = "";
        for ( String target : dictionary ){
            int l1 = longword.length(), l2 = target.length();
            if (l1 > l2 || (l1 == l2) && longword.compareTo(target) < 0) continue;
            if (isSubstr(s,target)) longword = target;
        }
        return longword;
    }
    
    private boolean isSubstr(String s, String target){
        int i=0, j = 0;
        while(i<s.length() && j<target.length()){
            if (s.charAt(i) == target.charAt(j)) j++;
            i++;
        }
        return j == target.length();
    }
}