76. Minimum Window Substring

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Problem

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

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within the string.

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.

Code

class Solution {
    public String minWindow(String s, String t) {
        int[] cnt = new int[128];
        for(char c : t.toCharArray()){
            cnt[c]++;
        }

        // 记录最小长度的起始位置
        int from = 0;
        // 判断是否找到t中的全部结果了
        int total = t.length();
        // 最小长度
        int min = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        for(int i = 0, j = 0; i < s.length(); i++){
            // 如果发现了t中的字符，就让total--
            if(cnt[s.charAt(i)]-- > 0) total--;

            // 先找到一个包含全部字符的
            // 在当前的范围内找到了多有的字符
            while(total == 0){
                // 先判断最小长度
                if(i - j + 1 < min){
                    min = i - j + 1;
                    from = j;
                }

                // 开始从左缩小窗口
                // 如果s中的字符碰到了t中字符，并且此时对应的字符在cnt中为0
                // 那么说明当前j指向的位置将会少一个t中的字符
                // 此时total++，退出while循环，开始找下一个字符
                if(cnt[s.charAt(j++)]++ == 0) total++;
            }
        }

        return (min == Integer.MAX_VALUE) ? "" : s.substring(from, from + min);
    }
}