Given a string s and a string t, check if s is subsequence of t.
You may assume that there is only lower case English letters in both s and t. t is potentially a very long (length ~= 500,000) string, and s is a short string (<=100).
A subsequence of a string is a new string which is formed from the original string by deleting some (can be none) of the characters without disturbing the relative positions of the remaining characters. (ie, "ace" is a subsequence of "abcde" while "aec" is not).
Example 1: s = "abc", t = "ahbgdc"
Return true.
Example 2: s = "axc", t = "ahbgdc"
Return false.
Follow up: If there are lots of incoming S, say S1, S2, ... , Sk where k >= 1B, and you want to check one by one to see if T has its subsequence. In this scenario, how would you change your code?
之后遍历s,并用一个index来记录当前字符所在的下标,index初始时为-1。 s[0] = a, a:{0} -> index = 0 s[1] = b, b:{2,4} -> index = 2 s[2] = c, c:{1,5} -> index=5
可以看到我们能够找到一个合法的序列,使得当前字母的起始下标始终大于上一个字母的下标。
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publicbooleanisSubsequence(String s, String t) { List<Integer>[] idx = newList[256]; // Just for clarity for (inti=0; i < t.length(); i++) { if (idx[t.charAt(i)] == null) idx[t.charAt(i)] = newArrayList<>(); idx[t.charAt(i)].add(i); } intprev=0; for (inti=0; i < s.length(); i++) { if (idx[s.charAt(i)] == null) returnfalse; // Note: char of S does NOT exist in T causing NPE intj= Collections.binarySearch(idx[s.charAt(i)], prev); if (j < 0) j = -j - 1; if (j == idx[s.charAt(i)].size()) returnfalse; prev = idx[s.charAt(i)].get(j) + 1; } returntrue; }