Simple prefix compression
Time Limit: 2000MS | Memory Limit: 65536K | |
Total Submissions: 1861 | Accepted: 813 |
Description
Many databases store the data in the character fields (and especially indices) using prefix compression. This technique compresses a sequence of strings A1, ..., A
N by the following method: if there are strings Ai = a
i,1a
i,2...a
i,p and A
i + 1 = a
i+1,1a
i+1,2...a
i+1,q
such that for some j ≤ min(p, q) a i,1 = a i+1,1, a i,2 = a i+1,2, ... a i,j = a i+1,j, then the second string is stored as [j]a i+1,j+1a i+1,j+2... a i+1,q, where [j] is a single character with code j.
If j = 0, that is, strings do not have any common prefix, then the second string is prefixed with zero byte, and so the total length actually increases.
Constraints
1 ≤ N ≤ 10000, 1 ≤ length(Ai) ≤ 255.
such that for some j ≤ min(p, q) a i,1 = a i+1,1, a i,2 = a i+1,2, ... a i,j = a i+1,j, then the second string is stored as [j]a i+1,j+1a i+1,j+2... a i+1,q, where [j] is a single character with code j.
If j = 0, that is, strings do not have any common prefix, then the second string is prefixed with zero byte, and so the total length actually increases.
Constraints
1 ≤ N ≤ 10000, 1 ≤ length(Ai) ≤ 255.
Input
First line of input contains integer number N, with following N lines containing strings A1 ... A
N
Output
Output must contain a single integer -- minimal total length of compressed strings.
Sample Input
3 abc atest atext
Sample Output
11
tips:马德,至今未看懂题意;看着别人的题解慢慢的胡搞;
具体来说每一次都统计与前面一个字符串的前缀数量;然后将长度-前缀数量的长度累加起来;然后胡搞没看懂题
#include<iostream> #include<cstring> #include<string> using namespace std; int n; string last,now; int main() { cin>>n;int ans=0; while(n--) { last=now; cin>>now; int sz=0; for(int i=0;i<last.size()&&i<now.size();i++) { if(now[i]!=last[i])break; sz++;//统计前缀长度 } ans+=(now.size()-sz+1);//非前缀长度; } cout<<ans-1<<endl; return 0; }