6. ZigZag Conversion

Description

The string “PAYPALISHIRING” is written in a zigzag pattern on a given number of rows like this: (you may want to display this pattern in a fixed font for better legibility)

And then read line by line: “PAHNAPLSIIGYIR”

Write the code that will take a string and make this conversion given a number of rows:

string convert(string s, int numRows);

Example 1:

Example 2:

My code:

java:

class Solution {
    public String convert(String s, int numRows) {
        String result="";
        if(numRows==1)
            return s;
        int step1,step2;
        int len=s.length();
        for(int i=0;i<numRows;++i){
            step1=(numRows-i-1)*2;
            step2=(i)*2;
            int pos=i;
            if(pos<len)
                result += s.charAt(pos);
            while(true){
                pos+=step1;
                if(pos>=len)
                    break;
                if(step1!=0)
                    result+=s.charAt(pos);
                pos+=step2;
                if(pos>=len)
                    break;
                if(step2!=0)
                    result+=s.charAt(pos);
            }
        }
        return result;
    }
}

Runtime: 101 ms

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