[LeetCode] Candy

There are N children standing in a line. Each child is assigned a rating value.

You are giving candies to these children subjected to the following requirements:

Each child must have at least one candy.
Children with a higher rating get more candies than their neighbors.

What is the minimum candies you must give?

思路：

从左往右扫描权重数组，保证权重大于左邻居的权重时得到的糖果也比座邻居大多，可以得到一个糖果数量数组。

从右往左扫描，满足右边邻居条件，得到另外一个糖果数量数组。

取每个孩子在两个糖果数量数组大的为最终值

public class Solution {
    public int candy(int[] ratings) {
        if (ratings == null) {
            return 0;
        }
        
        int len = ratings.length;
        if (len < 1) {
            return 0;
        }
        
        int[] leftArr = new int[len];
        int[] rightArr = new int[len];
        leftArr[0] = 1;
        
        for (int i = 1; i < len; i++) {
            if (ratings[i] > ratings[i - 1]) {
                leftArr[i] = leftArr[i - 1] + 1;
            } else {
                leftArr[i] = 1;
            }
        }
        
        rightArr[len - 1] = 1;
        for (int i = len - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
            if (ratings[i] > ratings[i + 1]) {
                rightArr[i] = rightArr[i + 1] + 1;
            } else {
                rightArr[i] = 1;
            }
        }
        
        int total = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            total += (leftArr[i] > rightArr[i] ? leftArr[i] : rightArr[i]);
        }
        
        return total;
    }
}