Let's make this one less mysterious. For 1047. Remove All Adjacent Duplicates In String, the solution in this repository is mainly a straightforward implementation solution.
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What?
We want to turn the problem statement into a smaller set of decisions the computer can repeat safely. Instead of trying to be clever immediately, read the code as a sequence of questions:
- What state are we keeping?
- How do we move from one state to the next?
- When do we know the answer is already determined?
For this file, the main tools are: straightforward implementation.
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When?
This is the kind of solution you want when the problem has structure hiding inside a messy-looking input. The accepted code reduces that pressure by storing exactly the information that remains useful later.
The important function names to track are removeDuplicates.
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Why?
The point of the implementation is not to make the code longer. It is to avoid doing the same thinking twice.
- Substring checks are convenient but not free, so they are part of the real complexity story.
- The final return is not magic; it is the invariant after the loops or recursion have finished doing their accounting.
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How?
Walk through the solution in this order:
- Initialize the memory or helper structure.
- Process candidates in the order the invariant expects.
- Update the answer only when the current state is valid.
- Return the value that represents the fully processed input.
The most important competitive-programming habit here is to trust the invariant. Once the invariant is right, the loops become much less scary.
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Complexity
- Time: O(n) to O(n log n), depending on the dominant loop or data structure operation
- Space: O(n) in the usual case for auxiliary containers or recursion
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C++ Solution
Your submission
The accepted solution
01//Runtime: 44 ms, faster than 28.17% of C++ online submissions for Remove All Adjacent Duplicates In String.
02//Memory Usage: 11.5 MB, less than 100.00% of C++ online submissions for Remove All Adjacent Duplicates In String.
03
04class Solution {
05public:
06 string removeDuplicates(string S) {
07 int nRemoved = 0;
08
09 do{
10 nRemoved = 0;
11 for(int i = 0; i < S.size() - 1;){
12 if(S[i] == S[i+1]){
13 //remove from i, length 2
14 // cout << S.size() << ", " << i << endl;
15 S.erase(i, 2);
16 i--;
17 nRemoved++;
18 }else{
19 i++;
20 }
21 }
22 }while(nRemoved > 0 && S.size() > 0);
23
24 return S;
25 }
26};
27
28//Two pointer:
29//https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-all-adjacent-duplicates-in-string/discuss/294893/JavaC%2B%2BPython-Two-Pointers-and-Stack-Solution
30//Runtime: 20 ms, faster than 82.26% of C++ online submissions for Remove All Adjacent Duplicates In String.
31//Memory Usage: 11.8 MB, less than 100.00% of C++ online submissions for Remove All Adjacent Duplicates In String.
32
33class Solution {
34public:
35 string removeDuplicates(string S) {
36 int isrc, idst;
37 for(isrc = 0, idst = 0; isrc < S.size(); isrc++, idst++){
38 S[idst] = S[isrc];
39 if(idst > 0 && S[idst] == S[idst-1]){
40 idst -= 2;
41 }
42 }
43 return S.substr(0, idst);
44 }
45};
46
47//Stack
48//https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-all-adjacent-duplicates-in-string/discuss/294893/JavaC%2B%2BPython-Two-Pointers-and-Stack-Solution
49//Runtime: 16 ms, faster than 90.84% of C++ online submissions for Remove All Adjacent Duplicates In String.
50//Memory Usage: 12.6 MB, less than 100.00% of C++ online submissions for Remove All Adjacent Duplicates In String.
51
52class Solution {
53public:
54 string removeDuplicates(string S) {
55 string ans = "";
56 for(char c : S){
57 if(ans.size() > 0 && c == ans.back()){
58 ans.pop_back();
59 }else{
60 ans.push_back(c);
61 }
62 }
63 return ans;
64 }
65};Cost