LeetCode-in-All

76. Minimum Window Substring

Hard

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.

Constraints:

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

Solution

class Solution {
  String minWindow(String s, String t) {
    List<int> map = List.filled(128, 0);

    for (int i = 0; i < t.length; i++) {
      map[t.codeUnitAt(i)]++;
    }

    int count = t.length;
    int begin = 0;
    int end = 0;
    int d = double.maxFinite
        .toInt();
    int head = 0;

    while (end < s.length) {
      if (map[s.codeUnitAt(end++)]-- > 0) {
        count--;
      }
      while (count == 0) {
        if (end - begin < d) {
          d = end - begin;
          head = begin;
        }
        if (map[s.codeUnitAt(begin++)]++ == 0) {
          count++;
        }
      }
    }

    return d == double.maxFinite.toInt() ? "" : s.substring(head, head + d);
  }
}