Minimum Window Substring

06/28/2016 Hash Table Two Pointers String

Question

Given a string S and a string T, find the minimum window in S which will contain all the characters in T in complexity .

For example,

S = "ADOBECODEBANC"

T = "ABC"

Minimum window is "BANC".

Note:

If there is no such window in S that covers all characters in T, return the empty string "".

If there are multiple such windows, you are guaranteed that there will always be only one unique minimum window in S.

Solution

Result: Accepted Time: 4 ms

Here should be some explanations.

char* minWindow(char* s, char* t) {
    int scnt[256]={0},tcnt[256]={0},reti=0,retj=INT_MAX,i=0,j=0,uni = 0,ucnt = 0;
    const int slen = strlen(s);
    for(char * x = t;  *x; x++)
        if(++tcnt[*x] == 1)
            uni++;
    while(ucnt < uni && j < slen)
            if(++scnt[s[j]]==tcnt[s[j++]])
                ucnt++;
    if(ucnt == uni)
    while(j <= slen)
    {
        while(scnt[s[i]] > tcnt[s[i]])
             scnt[s[i++]] --;
        if(j-i < retj - reti)
            reti= i,retj=j;
        scnt[s[j++]]++;
    }
    if(retj == INT_MAX)
        return s+slen;
    s[retj]=0;
    return s+reti;
}

Complexity Analytics

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