Description
A common pastime for poker players at a poker table is to shuffle stacks of chips. Shuffling chips is performed by starting with two stacks of poker chips, S1 and S2, each stack containing C chips.
Each stack may contain chips of several different colors.
The actual shuffle operation is performed by interleaving a chip from S1 with a chip from S2 as shown below for C = 5:
The single resultant stack, S12, contains 2 * C chips. The bottommost chip of S12 is the bottommost chip from S2. On top of that chip, is the bottommost
chip from S1. The interleaving process continues taking the 2nd chip from the bottom of S2 and placing that on S12, followed by the 2nd chip from the
bottom of S1 and so on until the topmost chip from S1 is placed on top of S12.
After the shuffle operation, S12 is split into 2 new stacks by taking the bottommost C chips from S12 to form a new S1 and the topmost C chips
from S12 to form a new S2. The shuffle operation may then be repeated to form a new S12.
For this problem, you will write a program to determine if a particular resultant stack S12 can be formed by shuffling two stacks some number of times.
Input
The first line of input contains a single integer N, (1 ≤ N ≤ 1000) which is the number of datasets that follow.
Each dataset consists of four lines of input. The first line of a dataset specifies an integer C, (1 ≤ C ≤ 100) which is the number of chips in each initial stack (S1 and S2).
The second line of each dataset specifies the colors of each of the C chips in stack S1, starting with the bottommost chip. The third line of each dataset specifies the colors of each of the C chips
in stack S2 starting with the bottommost chip. Colors are expressed as a single uppercase letter (A through H). There are no blanks or separators between the chip colors. The fourth line of each
dataset contains 2 * C uppercase letters (A through H), representing the colors of the desired result of the shuffling of S1 and S2 zero or
more times. The bottommost chip’s color is specified first.
Output
Output for each dataset consists of a single line that displays the dataset number (1 though N), a space, and an integer value which is the minimum number of shuffle operations required to get the desired resultant stack. If the
desired result can not be reached using the input for the dataset, display the value negative 1 (?1) for the number of shuffle operations.
Sample Input
2 4 AHAH HAHA HHAAAAHH 3 CDE CDE EEDDCC
Sample Output
1 2 2 -1
这道题是模拟题，给你两个字符串s1,s2，然后使它们合成一个字符串，合成的规则是s2的最前一个字符作为新字符串的开头字母，再是s1的最前一个字符，这样一次夹着排列，组合成新的字符串，如果和目标字符串一致，就输出要变化的次数，否则新字符串的前n个字符变成s1,后n个变成s2，再合成。
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
char s[400],s1[400],s2[400],str[400],str1[400];
int main()
{
int T,n,m,i,j,h,num;
scanf("%d",&T);
for(h=1;h<=T;h++)
{
scanf("%d",&n);
scanf("%s%s%s",s1,s2,s);
strcpy(str1,s1);
num=0;
memset(str,0,sizeof(str));
for(j=1;j<=100000;j++)
{
for(i=0;i<n;i++){
str[i*2]=s2[i];str[i*2+1]=s1[i];
}
str[2*n]=‘\0‘;
num++;
if(strcmp(str,s)==0){
break;
}
for(i=0;i<n;i++){
s1[i]=str[i];
}
for(i=n;i<2*n;i++){
s2[i-n]=str[i];
}
}
if(num>=99999)printf("%d %d\n",h,-1);
else printf("%d %d\n",h,num);
}
return 0;
}
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