[Leetcode] 387. First Unique Character in a String 解题报告

题目：

Given a string, find the first non-repeating character in it and return it's index. If it doesn't exist, return -1.

Examples:

s = "leetcode"
return 0.

s = "loveleetcode",
return 2.

Note: You may assume the string contain only lowercase letters.

思路：

首先遍历一遍，记录每个小写字符出现的次数；然后再遍历一遍，如果发现某个小写字符的出现次数是1，就返回对应索引。空间复杂度O(1)，时间复杂度O(n)。

代码：

class Solution {
public:
    int firstUniqChar(string s) {
        vector<int> characters(26, 0);
        for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); ++i) {
            int index = s[i] - 'a';
            ++characters[index];
        }
        for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); ++i) {
            int index = s[i] - 'a';
            if(characters[index] == 1) {
                return i;
            }
        }
        return -1;
    }
};