We have two special characters. The first character can be represented by one bit 0
. The second character can be represented by two bits (10
or 11
).
Now given a string represented by several bits. Return whether the last character must be a one-bit character or not. The given string will always end with a zero.
Example 1:
Input: bits = [1, 0, 0] Output: True Explanation: The only way to decode it is two-bit character and one-bit character. So the last character is one-bit character.
Example 2:
Input: bits = [1, 1, 1, 0] Output: False Explanation: The only way to decode it is two-bit character and two-bit character. So the last character is NOT one-bit character.
Note:
1 <= len(bits) <= 1000
.bits[i]
is always0
or1
.
Solutions:
class Solution:
def isOneBitCharacter(self, bits):
"""
:type bits: List[int]
:rtype: bool
"""
i=0
while i<len(bits):
if i==len(bits)-1:
if bits[i]==0:
return True
else:
return False
else:
if bits[i]==1:
i+=2
else:
i+=1
return False