Leetcode array 122. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II

Say you have an array for which the ith element is the price of a given stock on day i.

Design an algorithm to find the maximum profit. You may complete as many transactions as you like (i.e., buy one and sell one share of the stock multiple times).

Note: You may not engage in multiple transactions at the same time (i.e., you must sell the stock before you buy again).

Example 1:

Input: [7,1,5,3,6,4]
Output: 7
Explanation: Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 3 (price = 5), profit = 5-1 = 4.
             Then buy on day 4 (price = 3) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), profit = 6-3 = 3.

Example 2:

Input: [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: 4
Explanation: Buy on day 1 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 5), profit = 5-1 = 4.
             Note that you cannot buy on day 1, buy on day 2 and sell them later, as you are
             engaging multiple transactions at the same time. You must sell before buying again.

Example 3:

Input: [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this case, no transaction is done, i.e. max profit = 0.

思路:把数组看成时间序列，只需要计算相邻序列的差值即可，只累加大于0的差值。

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int maxProfit(vector<int>& prices){
        // 需要加一个判断，要不然会runtime error
        if(prices.size() <= 1) return 0;
        int max = 0;
        int diff = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i<prices.size()-1;i++){
                diff = prices[i+1] - prices[i];

                if(diff > 0){
                        max += diff;
                }
        }
        return max;
}

int main(){
        vector<int> a;
        int i = 0;
        do{
                cin>>i;
                a.push_back(i);
        }while(getchar() != '\n');

        int ans = maxProfit(a);
        cout<<ans<<endl;
}