2024-06-01 Daily Challenge

Today I have done leetcode's June LeetCoding Challenge with cpp.

June LeetCoding Challenge 1

Description

Score of a String

You are given a string s. The score of a string is defined as the sum of the absolute difference between the ASCII values of adjacent characters.

Return the score of s.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "hello"

Output: 13

Explanation:

The ASCII values of the characters in s are: 'h' = 104, 'e' = 101, 'l' = 108, 'o' = 111. So, the score of s would be |104 - 101| + |101 - 108| + |108 - 108| + |108 - 111| = 3 + 7 + 0 + 3 = 13.

Example 2:

Input: s = "zaz"

Output: 50

Explanation:

The ASCII values of the characters in s are: 'z' = 122, 'a' = 97. So, the score of s would be |122 - 97| + |97 - 122| = 25 + 25 = 50.

 

Constraints:

  • 2 <= s.length <= 100
  • s consists only of lowercase English letters.

Solution

class Solution {
public:
  int scoreOfString(string s) {
    int answer = 0;
    int current = s.front();
    for(auto c : s) {
      answer += abs(current - c);
      current = c;
    }
    return answer;
  }
};