Leetcode 76. Minimum Window Substring

第76題,題目如下: 

Given two strings s and t of lengths m and n respectively, return the minimum window 

 

 of s such that every character in t (including duplicates) is included in the window. If there is no such substring, return the empty string "".

 

The testcases will be generated such that the answer is unique.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "ADOBECODEBANC", t = "ABC"
Output: "BANC"
Explanation: The minimum window substring "BANC" includes 'A', 'B', and 'C' from string t.

Example 2:

Input: s = "a", t = "a"
Output: "a"
Explanation: The entire string s is the minimum window.

Example 3:

Input: s = "a", t = "aa"
Output: ""
Explanation: Both 'a's from t must be included in the window.
Since the largest window of s only has one 'a', return empty string.

 

Constraints:

  • m == s.length
  • n == t.length
  • 1 <= m, n <= 105
  • s and t consist of uppercase and lowercase English letters.

 

Follow up: Could you find an algorithm that runs in O(m + n) time?

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// Q76. Minimum Window Substring
public String minWindow(String s, String t) {
    int[] count = new int[128];
    int required = t.length();
    int bestLeft = –1;
    int minLength = s.length() + 1;

    for (final char c : t.toCharArray())
      ++count[c];

    for (int l = 0, r = 0; r < s.length(); ++r) {
      if (–count[s.charAt(r)] >= 0)
        –required;
      while (required == 0) {
        if (r – l + 1 < minLength) {
          bestLeft = l;
          minLength = r – l + 1;
        }
        if (++count[s.charAt(l++)] > 0)
          ++required;
      }
    }

    return bestLeft == –1 ? “” : s.substring(bestLeft, bestLeft + minLength);
  }

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