There are N children standing in a line. Each child is assigned a rating value.
You are giving candies to these children subjected to the following requirements:
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Each child must have at least one candy.
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Children with a higher rating get more candies than their neighbors.
What is the minimum candies you must give?
Example
Given ratings = [1, 2]
, return 3
.
Given ratings = [1, 1, 1]
, return 3
.
Given ratings = [1, 2, 2]
, return 4
. ([1,2,1]).
class Solution {
public:
/**
* @param ratings Children's ratings
* @return the minimum candies you must give
*/
// input as [2,6,5,4]
int candy(vector<int>& ratings) {
// Write your code here
if (ratings.size() == 0)
return 0;
// need to initialize as 1, very important
vector<int> auxVtr(ratings.size(), 1);
for (int i=1; i<ratings.size(); i++)
{
if (ratings[i] > ratings[i-1])
auxVtr[i] = auxVtr[i-1]+1;
}
//这种算法只计算当前值和上一个值比较,如果比上一个值大,需要加一,但是没有考虑当前值比前一个值小的情况,就是说无论从左到右还是从右到左,都知道看上升,看不见下降,下降需要由另外一个方向计算
for (int i=ratings.size()-2; i>=0; i--)
{
if ((ratings[i] > ratings[i+1]) && (auxVtr[i] <= auxVtr[i+1])) // 1234567623 左到右1234567112,右到左 1234567211
auxVtr[i] = auxVtr[i+1]+1;
}
int sum = 0;
for (int i=0; i<ratings.size(); i++)
sum += auxVtr[i];
return sum;
}
};