Multiply Strings
Mar 12 '12
Given two numbers represented as strings, return multiplication of the numbers as a string.
Note: The numbers can be arbitrarily large and are non-negative.
uncompleted.
public class Solution {
public String multiply(String num1, String num2) {
// Start typing your Java solution below
// DO NOT write main() function
if(num1==null || num2==null || num1.length()==0 || num2.length()==0) return null;
int sz1 = num1.length();
int sz2 = num2.length();
int[] res = new int[sz1+sz2];
for(int i=sz1-1, shift=sz1+sz2-1; i>=0; i--, shift--) {
int x = num1.charAt(i) - '0';
int carry = 0;
int start = shift;
for(int j=sz2-1; j>=0; j--) {
int y = num2.charAt(j) - '0';
int z = x*y + res[start];
res[start--] = z%10;
carry = z/10;
}
if(carry>0) res[start] += carry; //maybe greater than 10
}
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for(int i=0; i<res.length; i++) {
if(res[i]!=0) sb.append( res[i] );
}
return sb.length()==0 ? "0" : sb.toString();
}
}