本题至少应该想到用一个二维数组存储结果,但是这样会造成很多空间浪费。
string convert(string s, int numRows) {
if (numRows == 1) return s; //特例判断,非常重要
vector<string> rows(min(numRows, int(s.size()))); //vector保存每一行的字符串
int curRow = 0;
bool goingDown = false; //指定row应该向下增加还是向上减少
for (char c : s) {
rows[curRow] += c;
//到了0行或者最后一行要调头
if (curRow == 0 || curRow == numRows - 1) goingDown = !goingDown;
curRow += goingDown ? 1 : -1;
}
string ret;
for (string row : rows) ret += row;
return ret;
}