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Ducks have started mysteriously appearing in your room. All ducks make the same sound: "quack". Each duck makes the sound one or more times, one after another. For example, valid sounds for a single duck are "quack", "quackquackquackquack", "quackquack", etc. You have lost count of how many ducks are in your room. The ducks are quacking, and the sounds of their quacks are getting mixed up. You have recorded the sounds, obtaining a string of characters. When you later listened to the recording, you realized that You are given a string s that contains an arbitrary recording. Find and return the smallest number of ducks that could have produced the recording. Note that it is possible that the given recording is not a valid recording of quacking ducks. |
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| - | s will have between 5 and 2,500 characters, inclusive. | ||||||||||||
| - | Each character of s will be ‘q‘, ‘u‘, ‘a‘, ‘c‘, or ‘k‘. | ||||||||||||
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My Solution
I will add the explanation tomorrow
paste my code first ?
// BEGIN CUT HERE
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#line 5 "Quacking.cpp"
#include <string>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
class Quacking {
public:
string str[501]; // 2500/5 => 500
int quack(string s) { //"quack"
int sz = s.size(), smallsz, crr = -1;
for(int i = 0; i < sz; i++){
crr = -1;
if(s[i] == 'q'){
for(int j = 0; j < 500; j++){
smallsz = str[j].size();
if(smallsz == 0) {str[j] = 'q'; crr = 1; break;}
else if(str[j][smallsz-1] == 'k') {str[j] += 'q'; crr = 1; break;}
}
if(crr == -1) return -1;
}
else if(s[i] == 'u'){
for(int j = 0; j < 500; j++){
smallsz = str[j].size();
if(smallsz == 0) {return -1;}
else if(str[j][smallsz-1] == 'q') {str[j] += 'u'; crr = 1; break;}
}
if(crr == -1) return -1;
}
else if(s[i] == 'a'){
for(int j = 0; j < 500; j++){
smallsz = str[j].size();
if(smallsz == 0) {return -1;}
else if(str[j][smallsz-1] == 'u') {str[j] += 'a'; crr = 1; break;}
}
if(crr == -1) return -1;
}
else if(s[i] == 'c'){
for(int j = 0; j < 500; j++){
smallsz = str[j].size();
if(smallsz == 0) {return -1;}
else if(str[j][smallsz-1] == 'a') {str[j] += 'c'; crr = 1; break;}
}
if(crr == -1) return -1;
}
else if(s[i] == 'k'){
for(int j = 0; j < 500; j++){
smallsz = str[j].size();
if(smallsz == 0) {return -1;}
else if(str[j][smallsz-1] == 'c') {str[j] += 'k'; crr = 1; break;}
}
if(crr == -1) return -1;
}
}
int ans = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < 500; i++){
if(str[i].size()) ans++;
}
return ans;
}
};
Thank you!