LeetCode:Multiply Strings

Multiply Strings

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Given two numbers represented as strings, return multiplication of the numbers as a string.

Note:

• The numbers can be arbitrarily large and are non-negative.
• Converting the input string to integer is NOT allowed.
• You should NOT use internal library such as BigInteger.

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思路：

如：num1="123",num2="45";对应结果存储在ans[num1.size()+num2.size()]中。

从右到左对位相乘，只要确定相乘后的结果在ans中位置即可。

参考讨论区的图：

即：num1[i] * num2[j]相乘后的对应位置为：i+j和i+j+1。

c++ code:

class Solution {
public:
    string multiply(string num1, string num2) {
        
        int len1 = num1.size(),len2 = num2.size();
        
        string ans(len1+len2,'0');
        
        for(int i=len1-1;i>=0;i--) {
            for(int j=len2-1;j>=0;j--) {
                
                int mul = (num1[i]-'0') * (num2[j]-'0');
                int p1 = i + j;
                int p2 = p1 + 1;
                int sum = mul + ans[p2]-'0';
                ans[p2] = sum % 10 + '0';
                ans[p1] += sum / 10; // 这里ans[p1]-'0',而sum/10+'0',因此抵消
            }
        }
        
        // 去掉前面的0
        int start  = 0;
        while(ans[start]=='0') start++;
        ans = ans.substr(start);
        
        return ans.size()==0 ? "0" : ans;
        
    }
};