[leetcode] 1233. Remove Sub-Folders from the Filesystem

Description

Given a list of folders, remove all sub-folders in those folders and return in any order the folders after removing.

If a folder[i] is located within another folder[j], it is called a sub-folder of it.

The format of a path is one or more concatenated strings of the form: / followed by one or more lowercase English letters. For example, /leetcode and /leetcode/problems are valid paths while an empty string and / are not.

Example 1:

Input: folder = ["/a","/a/b","/c/d","/c/d/e","/c/f"]
Output: ["/a","/c/d","/c/f"]
Explanation: Folders "/a/b/" is a subfolder of "/a" and "/c/d/e" is inside of folder "/c/d" in our filesystem.

Example 2:

Input: folder = ["/a","/a/b/c","/a/b/d"]
Output: ["/a"]
Explanation: Folders "/a/b/c" and "/a/b/d/" will be removed because they are subfolders of "/a".

Example 3:

Input: folder = ["/a/b/c","/a/b/ca","/a/b/d"]
Output: ["/a/b/c","/a/b/ca","/a/b/d"]

Constraints:

1. 1 <= folder.length <= 4 * 10^4.
2. 2 <= folder[i].length <= 100.
3. folder[i] contains only lowercase letters and ‘/’.
4. folder[i] always starts with character ‘/’.
5. Each folder name is unique.

分析

题目的意思是：保留一个数组里面的所有根目录，其他的删除。
我看见这题一开始的想法就是暴力破解，发现肯定复杂度很高，后面发现先排序，然后有同一根目录的目录就会被排序到一起，这样的话再遍历一次找出所有的根目录就行了。

代码

class Solution:
    def removeSubfolders(self, folder: List[str]) -> List[str]:
        folder.sort()
        res=[]
        parent=' '
        for f in folder:
            if(not f.startswith(parent)):
                res.append(f)
                parent=f+'/'
        return res

参考文献

[LeetCode] [Python] Easy to understand, Sort & Check Parent, Faster than 100%