2024-12-04 Daily Challenge

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

December LeetCoding Challenge 4

Description

Make String a Subsequence Using Cyclic Increments

You are given two 0-indexed strings str1 and str2.

In an operation, you select a set of indices in str1, and for each index i in the set, increment str1[i] to the next character cyclically. That is 'a' becomes 'b', 'b' becomes 'c', and so on, and 'z' becomes 'a'.

Return true if it is possible to make str2 a subsequence of str1 by performing the operation at most once, and false otherwise.

Note: A subsequence of a string is a new string that is formed from the original string by deleting some (possibly none) of the characters without disturbing the relative positions of the remaining characters.

 

Example 1:

Input: str1 = "abc", str2 = "ad"
Output: true
Explanation: Select index 2 in str1.
Increment str1[2] to become 'd'. 
Hence, str1 becomes "abd" and str2 is now a subsequence. Therefore, true is returned.

Example 2:

Input: str1 = "zc", str2 = "ad"
Output: true
Explanation: Select indices 0 and 1 in str1. 
Increment str1[0] to become 'a'. 
Increment str1[1] to become 'd'. 
Hence, str1 becomes "ad" and str2 is now a subsequence. Therefore, true is returned.

Example 3:

Input: str1 = "ab", str2 = "d"
Output: false
Explanation: In this example, it can be shown that it is impossible to make str2 a subsequence of str1 using the operation at most once. 
Therefore, false is returned.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= str1.length <= 105
  • 1 <= str2.length <= 105
  • str1 and str2 consist of only lowercase English letters.

Solution

class Solution {
public:
  bool canMakeSubsequence(string str1, string str2) {
    int pos = 0;
    for(auto c : str1) {
      if(c == str2[pos] || (c - 'a' + 1) % 26 + 'a' == str2[pos]) pos += 1;
      if(pos == str2.length()) return true;
    }
    return false;
  }
};

// Accepted
// 1126/1126 cases passed (8 ms)
// Your runtime beats 26.52 % of cpp submissions
// Your memory usage beats 13.81 % of cpp submissions (17.1 MB)