LeetCode 389. Find the Difference 题解（C++）

LeetCode 389. Find the Difference 题解（C++）

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题目描述

• Given two strings s and t which consist of only lowercase letters.
• String t is generated by random shuffling string s and then add one more letter at a random position.
• Find the letter that was added in t.

示例

• Input:
  s = “abcd”
  t = “abcde”

  Output:
  e

  Explanation:’e’ is the letter that was added.

思路

• 设置一个由26个int类型的元素组成的数组，用来记录字符串s中出现的每个字符的次数，比如出现a，则对应数组下标为0里的数值加1；
• 遍历字符串s，并记录每个字符出现的次数，之后遍历字符串t，若对应字符下标位置的数值为0，则记录该字符，并退出循环，否则，则将该下标的数值减1。

代码

class Solution 
{
public:
    char findTheDifference(string s, string t) 
    {
        int cSum[26] = {0};
        int temp = 0;
        char c;
        for (int i = 0; i < s. size(); ++i)
        {
            temp = s[i] - 'a'; 
            ++cSum[temp];
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < t.size(); ++i)
        {
            temp = t[i] - 'a';
            if (cSum[temp] == 0)
            {
                c = t[i];
                break;
            }
            --cSum[temp];
        }
        return c;
    }
};

补充

• 这里也可以使用异或位运算符来进行。

class Solution 
{
public:
    char findTheDifference(string s, string t) 
    {
        char c = 0;
        for (int i = 0 ; i < s.size(); ++i)
        {
            c ^= s[i];
            c ^= t[i];
        }
        c ^= t[t.size() - 1];

        return c;
    }
};