问题描述:
Given a string s and a string t, check if s is subsequence of t.
You may assume that there is only lower case English letters in both s and t. t is potentially a very long (length ~= 500,000) string, and s is a short string (<=100).
A subsequence of a string is a new string which is formed from the original string by deleting some (can be none) of the characters without disturbing the relative positions of the remaining characters. (ie, “ace” is a subsequence of “abcde” while “aec” is not).
思路:与字符串匹配的KMP算法有异曲同工之妙,设定两个指针,分别指向s和t,当指向s的指针在第i位,指向t的指针在第j位不满足时,指向t的指针不需要回溯,而是直接从j+1位开始匹配,因为此时前面的字符串必然不能满足条件。
代码如下
class Solution {
public:
bool isSubsequence(string s, string t) {
int i=0,j=0;
for(j=0;j<t.length() && i<s.length(); j++){
if(t[j]==s[i]){
i++;
}
}
return i==s.length();
}
};
时间复杂度为O(n+m)~O(n),n为字符串t长度