The count-and-say sequence is the sequence of integers beginning as follows:
1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, ...
1
is read off as "one 1"
or 11
.
11
is read off as "two 1s"
or 21
.
21
is read off as "one 2
, then one 1"
or 1211
.
Given an integer n, generate the nth sequence.
Note: The sequence of integers will be represented as a string.
class Solution {
public:
string countAndSay(int n) {
string before = "1";
int counter = 1;
while(counter < n) {
counter++;
string next;
for (int i = 0; i < before.size(); i++) {
char temp = before[i];
int num = 1;
while (i + 1 < before.size() && before[i + 1] == temp) {
num++;
i++;
}
next += numToStr(num) + temp;
}
before = next;
}
return before;
}
string numToStr(int num) {
stringstream ss;
ss << num;
return ss.str();
}
};