Codeforces C. Yet Another Walking Robot(2月5日)

There is a robot on a coordinate plane. Initially, the robot is located at the point (0,0). Its path is described as a string s of length n consisting of characters ‘L’, ‘R’, ‘U’, ‘D’.

Each of these characters corresponds to some move:

‘L’ (left): means that the robot moves from the point (x,y) to the point (x−1,y);
‘R’ (right): means that the robot moves from the point (x,y) to the point (x+1,y);
‘U’ (up): means that the robot moves from the point (x,y) to the point (x,y+1);
‘D’ (down): means that the robot moves from the point (x,y) to the point (x,y−1).
The company that created this robot asked you to optimize the path of the robot somehow. To do this, you can remove any non-empty substring of the path. But this company doesn’t want their customers to notice the change in the robot behavior. It means that if before the optimization the robot ended its path at the point (xe,ye), then after optimization (i.e. removing some single substring from s) the robot also ends its path at the point (xe,ye).

This optimization is a low-budget project so you need to remove the shortest possible non-empty substring to optimize the robot’s path such that the endpoint of his path doesn’t change. It is possible that you can’t optimize the path. Also, it is possible that after the optimization the target path is an empty string (i.e. deleted substring is the whole string s).

Recall that the substring of s is such string that can be obtained from s by removing some amount of characters (possibly, zero) from the prefix and some amount of characters (possibly, zero) from the suffix. For example, the substrings of “LURLLR” are “LU”, “LR”, “LURLLR”, “URL”, but not “RR” and “UL”.

You have to answer t independent test cases.

Input
The first line of the input contains one integer t (1≤t≤1000) — the number of test cases.

The next 2t lines describe test cases. Each test case is given on two lines. The first line of the test case contains one integer n (1≤n≤2⋅105) — the length of the robot’s path. The second line of the test case contains one string s consisting of n characters ‘L’, ‘R’, ‘U’, ‘D’ — the robot’s path.

It is guaranteed that the sum of n over all test cases does not exceed 2⋅105 (∑n≤2⋅105).

Output
For each test case, print the answer on it. If you cannot remove such non-empty substring that the endpoint of the robot’s path doesn’t change, print -1. Otherwise, print two integers l and r such that 1≤l≤r≤n — endpoints of the substring you remove. The value r−l+1 should be minimum possible. If there are several answers, print any of them.

Example
input
4
4
LRUD
4
LURD
5
RRUDU
5
LLDDR
output
1 2
1 4
3 4
-1

题意:给出机器人走过的路径(用字符串表示),删除最短的字符串使得机器人的起始点不变

思路:记录机器人走过的坐标,如果有回路记录回路的启起始点,并找出最短的回路

AC代码:

#include<iostream>
#include<cstdio>
#include<map>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    int t;
    cin>>t;
    while(t--)
    {
        int n;
        cin>>n;
        string s;
        cin>>s;

        map<pair< int, int>, int> m;//这种形式好久没用了,编译器警告,但不影响做题
         map<pair< int, int>, int> w;//处理回路起点的差值
        m[{0,0}]=1;
         w[{0,0}]=0;
        int l=0,r=0,x=0,y=0,ans=0X3f3f3f;
        for(int i=1;i<=n;i++)
        {
            if(s[i-1]=='L')x--;
            if(s[i-1]=='R')x++;
            if(s[i-1]=='U')y++;
            if(s[i-1]=='D')y--;
            if(m[{x,y}])
                {
                    if(i-w[{x,y}]<ans)
                    {
                        ans=i-w[{x,y}];
                        l=w[{x,y}]+1;
                        r=i;
                    }
                }
            w[{x,y}]=i;
             m[{x,y}]=i;
        }
        if(ans==0X3f3f3f)
            cout<<-1<<endl;
        else
        {
            cout<<l<<" "<<r<<endl;
        }
    }
}

我真是个傻子,比赛时看到字符串就按字符串来做了,麻烦还不对,人家都给出坐标了愣是没用,要是早点用坐标的话这个题完全能做出来的。。。。

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The problem statement can be found at Codeforces website. Approach: Let's start by looking at some examples: - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 → No moves needed. - 2, 1, 3, 5, 4 → One move needed: swap index 1 and 2. - 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 → Two moves needed: swap index 1 and 5, then swap index 2 and 4. We can observe that in order to minimize the number of moves, we need to sort the array in non-descending order and keep track of the number of swaps we make. We can use bubble sort to sort the array and count the number of swaps. Let's see how bubble sort works: - Start from the first element, compare it with the second element, and swap them if the second element is smaller. - Move to the second element, compare it with the third element, and swap them if the third element is smaller. - Continue this process until the second-to-last element. At this point, the largest element is in the last position. - Repeat the above process for the remaining elements, but exclude the last position. In each iteration of the above process, we can count the number of swaps made. Therefore, the total number of swaps needed to sort the array can be obtained by summing up the number of swaps made in each iteration. Implementation: We can implement the above approach using a simple bubble sort algorithm. Here's the code: - First, we read the input array and store it in a vector. - We define a variable to keep track of the total number of swaps made and set it to 0. - We run a loop from the first element to the second-to-last element. - In each iteration of the above loop, we run another loop from the first element to the second-to-last element minus the current iteration index. - In each iteration of the inner loop, we compare the current element with the next element and swap them if the next element is smaller. - If a swap is made, we increment the total number of swaps made. - Finally, we output the total number of swaps made. Time Complexity: The time complexity of bubble sort is O(n^2). Therefore, the overall time complexity of the solution is O(n^2). Space Complexity: We are using a vector to store the input array. Therefore, the space complexity of the solution is O(n). Let's see the implementation of the solution.
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