You are given a license key represented as a string S which consists only alphanumeric character and dashes. The string is separated into N+1 groups by N dashes.
Given a number K, we would want to reformat the strings such that each group contains exactly K characters, except for the first group which could be shorter than K, but still must contain at least one character. Furthermore, there must be a dash inserted between two groups and all lowercase letters should be converted to uppercase.
Given a non-empty string S and a number K, format the string according to the rules described above.
Example 1:
Input: S = "5F3Z-2e-9-w", K = 4 Output: "5F3Z-2E9W" Explanation: The string S has been split into two parts, each part has 4 characters. Note that the two extra dashes are not needed and can be removed.
Example 2:
Input: S = "2-5g-3-J", K = 2 Output: "2-5G-3J" Explanation: The string S has been split into three parts, each part has 2 characters except the first part as it could be shorter as mentioned above.
Note:
- The length of string S will not exceed 12,000, and K is a positive integer.
- String S consists only of alphanumerical characters (a-z and/or A-Z and/or 0-9) and dashes(-).
- String S is non-empty.
public class LicenseKeyFormatting {
public String licenseKeyFormatting (String s, int k) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = s.length() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
if (s.charAt(i) != '-') {
sb.append(sb.length() % (k + 1) == k ? "-" : "").append(s.charAt(i));
}
}
return sb.reverse().toString().toUpperCase();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
LicenseKeyFormatting ts = new LicenseKeyFormatting();
String s = "5F3Z-2e-9-w";
int k = 5;
System.out.println(ts.licenseKeyFormatting(s, k));
}
}