Description:
You are given a license key represented as a string S which consists only alphanumeric character and dashes. The string is separated into N+1 groups by N dashes.
Given a number K, we would want to reformat the strings such that each group contains exactly K characters, except for the first group which could be shorter than K, but still must contain at least one character. Furthermore, there must be a dash inserted between two groups and all lowercase letters should be converted to uppercase.
Given a non-empty string S and a number K, format the string according to the rules described above.
Example 1:
Input: S = "5F3Z-2e-9-w", K = 4
Output: "5F3Z-2E9W"
Explanation: The string S has been split into two parts, each part has 4 characters.
Note that the two extra dashes are not needed and can be removed.
Example 2:
Input: S = "2-5g-3-J", K = 2
Output: "2-5G-3J"
Explanation: The string S has been split into three parts, each part has 2 characters except the first part as it could be shorter as mentioned above.
Note:
- The length of string S will not exceed 12,000, and K is a positive integer.
- String S consists only of alphanumerical characters (a-z and/or A-Z and/or 0-9) and dashes(-).
- String S is non-empty.
题意:给定一个字符串S(仅包含数字、字母和短折线)和一个分组字符数K,要求将除了短折线以外的所有字符分组,每组包括K个字符,其中第一个分组可以包括少于K个字符,但必须至少有一个字符;
解法:如果我们是从字符串S的首部开始分组,那么我们很难判断第一个分组应该划分多少个字符,换个方向,如果我们从字符串S的尾部开始分组,每组都划分K个,那么最后划分的那一组就是第一个分组(这样我们就无需进行计算第一个分组的字符数);最后,将得到的分组逆序就得到最后的结果;
Java
class Solution {
public String licenseKeyFormatting(String S, int K) {
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = S.length() - 1; i >=0;) {
if (S.charAt(i) == '-') {
i--;
continue;
}
int k = K;
while (k > 0) {
if (i >=0 && S.charAt(i) == '-') {
i--;
continue;
}
if (i < 0) break;
char ch = Character.isLetter(S.charAt(i)) ?
Character.toUpperCase(S.charAt(i)) : S.charAt(i);
result.append(ch);
k--;
i--;
}
result.append('-');
}
return result.length() == 0 ? "" : result.reverse().toString().substring(1, result.length());
}
}