This problem looks busy at first, but the accepted solution is built around one steady invariant. For 1422. Maximum Score After Splitting a String, the solution in this repository is mainly a two pointers 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: two pointers.
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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 maxScore, left.
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Why?
The win comes from making each line carry responsibility: store the useful state, discard the rest, keep moving.
- 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:
- Start from the smallest reliable state.
- Expand one legal move at a time.
- Cache, count, or merge information as soon as it becomes settled.
- Let the final stored value answer the original question.
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: 16 ms, faster than 14.29% of C++ online submissions for Maximum Score After Splitting a String.
02//Memory Usage: 6.9 MB, less than 100.00% of C++ online submissions for Maximum Score After Splitting a String.
03class Solution {
04public:
05 int maxScore(string s) {
06 int ans = 0;
07 int n = s.size();
08 vector<int> left(n, 0), right(n, 0);
09
10 for(int i = 0; i < s.size(); i++){
11 left[i] = ((i > 0) ? left[i-1] : 0) + (s[i] == '0');
12 right[s.size()-1-i] = ((i > 0) ? right[s.size()-1-i+1] : 0) + (s[s.size()-1-i] == '1');
13 }
14
15 for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){
16 cout << left[i] << " ";
17 }
18 cout << endl;
19
20 for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){
21 cout << right[i] << " ";
22 }
23 cout << endl;
24
25 for(int i = 0; i < n-1; i++){
26 ans = max(ans, left[i] + right[i+1]);
27 }
28
29 return ans;
30 }
31};
32
33//One Pass
34//https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-score-after-splitting-a-string/discuss/597716/Java-5-Liner-(One-Pass)
35//Runtime: 0 ms, faster than 100.00% of C++ online submissions for Maximum Score After Splitting a String.
36//Memory Usage: 6.5 MB, less than 100.00% of C++ online submissions for Maximum Score After Splitting a String.
37class Solution {
38public:
39 int maxScore(string s) {
40 int zeros = 0, ones = 0, ans = INT_MIN;
41 int n = s.size();
42 /*
43 ans
44 = max(lZero+rOne)
45 = max(lZero+totalOne-lOne)
46 = max(lZero-lOne) + totalOne
47 */
48 for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){
49 if(s[i] == '0') zeros++;
50 else ones++;
51 /*
52 there should be at least one char in the right part,
53 so don't update ans in the last iteration
54 */
55 if(i != n-1) ans = max(ans, zeros-ones);
56 }
57
58 return ans + ones;
59 }
60};Cost