Given a string S and a string T, find the minimum window in S which will contain all the characters in T in complexity O(n).
For example,
S = "ADOBECODEBANC"
T = "ABC"
Minimum window is "BANC".
Note:
If there is no such window in S that covers all characters in T, return the emtpy string "".
If there are multiple such windows, you are guaranteed that there will always be only one unique minimum window in S.
双指针,动态维护一个区间。尾指针不断往后扫,当扫到有一个窗口包含了所有T的字符后,然后再收缩头指针,直到不能再收缩为止。最后记录所有可能的情况中窗口最小的.hasFind[S]记录已经找到的字符的个数,needFind[S]记录T中需要找到的字符的个数。
只有当hasFind[S] <= needFind[S] 时才需要count++。
string minWindow(string S, string T)
{
int sLen=S.size(), tLen=T.size();
if(tLen==0 || sLen<tLen)
return "";
int needFind[256]= {0};
int hasFind[256]= {0};
for(int i=0; i<tLen; i++)
needFind[T[i]]++;
int minWindowLength=INT_MAX;
int minBegin=0, minEnd=sLen-1;
int begin=0, count=0;
for(int end=0; end<sLen; end++)
{
//skip those not in T
if(needFind[S[end]]==0) continue;
hasFind[S[end]]++;
//update the total number of characters found
if(hasFind[S[end]] <= needFind[S[end]])
count++;
//a window exists from begin to end
if(count==tLen)
{
//move begin pointer to find the minimum window
while(begin<end)
{
if(needFind[S[begin]]==0)
{
begin++;
continue;
}
if(hasFind[S[begin]] > needFind[S[begin]])
{
hasFind[S[begin]]--;
begin++;
continue;
}
else
break;
}
int tmpWindowLength=end-begin+1;
if(tmpWindowLength < minWindowLength)
{
minBegin=begin;
minEnd=end;
minWindowLength=tmpWindowLength;
}
}
}
if(minWindowLength==INT_MAX)
return "";
return S.substr(minBegin,minWindowLength);
}