The string “PAYPALISHIRING” is written in a zigzag pattern on a given number of rows like this: (you may want to display this pattern in a fixed font for better legibility)
P A H N
A P L S I I G
Y I R
And then read line by line: “PAHNAPLSIIGYIR”
Write the code that will take a string and make this conversion given a number of rows:
string convert(string text, int nRows);
convert(“PAYPALISHIRING”, 3) should return “PAHNAPLSIIGYIR”.
class Solution {
public:
string convert(string s, int numRows) {
if(s.size()==0||s.size()==1) return s;
string str[numRows];
string result="";
int count=0;
bool mark=true;
for(int i=0;i<s.size();i++)
{
str[count]=str[count]+s[i];
if(count==numRows-1)
mark=false;
else if(count==0)
mark=true;
if(mark&&(numRows>count+1))
count++;
else if(mark==false&&count!=0)
count--;
}
for(int i=0;i<numRows;i++)
{
result=result+str[i];
}
return result;
}
};