You are given a string s
. We want to partition the string into as many parts as possible so that each letter appears in at most one part.
Note that the partition is done so that after concatenating all the parts in order, the resultant string should be s
.
Return a list of integers representing the size of these parts.
Example 1:
Input: s = "ababcbacadefegdehijhklij" Output: [9,7,8] Explanation: The partition is "ababcbaca", "defegde", "hijhklij". This is a partition so that each letter appears in at most one part. A partition like "ababcbacadefegde", "hijhklij" is incorrect, because it splits s into less parts.
Example 2:
Input: s = "eccbbbbdec" Output: [10]
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 500
s
consists of lowercase English letters.
To find a substring that satisfies the description, we need to find the substring that, for each letter in the string, the last position of those letters should be smaller or equal to i. We can use hashmap to store each letter's last position. Time/ space complexity is both O(n)
Pay attention: the way to initialize the hashmap
class Solution:
def partitionLabels(self, s: str) -> List[int]:
last = {c:i for i,c in enumerate(s)}
start = 0
end = 0
res = []
for i in range(len(s)):
end = max(end, last[s[i]])
if i == end:
res.append(end-start+1)
start = i + 1
return res