Medium
Count of Substrings Containing Every Vowel and K Consonants I — C++
Full explanation · Time O(n) · Space O(1)
// Time: O(n)
// Space: O(1)
// two pointers, sliding window, freq table
class Solution {
public:
int countOfSubstrings(string word, int k) {
static const unordered_set<char> VOWELS = {'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'};
vector<int> cnt1(26), cnt2(26);
int curr1 = 0, curr2 = 0;
const auto& update = [&](int i, int d) {
if (!VOWELS.count(word[i])) {
curr2 += d;
return;
}
const auto x = word[i] - 'a';
if (cnt1[x] == 0) {
++curr1;
}
cnt1[x] += d;
if (cnt1[x] == 0) {
--curr1;
}
};
int64_t result = 0;
for (int right = 0, left = 0, mid = 0; right < size(word); ++right) {
update(right, +1);
while (curr2 > k) {
update(left, -1);
if (left < mid) {
--cnt2[word[left] - 'a'];
}
mid = max(mid, ++left);
}
if (!(curr1 == size(VOWELS) && curr2 == k)) {
continue;
}
for (; VOWELS.count(word[mid]) && cnt1[word[mid] - 'a'] - (cnt2[word[mid] - 'a'] + 1) >= 1; ++mid) {
++cnt2[word[mid] - 'a'];
}
result += mid - left + 1;
}
return result;
}
};
// Time: O(n)
// Space: O(1)
// two pointers, sliding window, freq table
class Solution2 {
public:
int countOfSubstrings(string word, int k) {
static const unordered_set<char> VOWELS = {'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'};
const auto& count = [&](int k) {
vector<int> cnt(26);
int curr1 = 0, curr2 = 0;
const auto& update = [&](int i, int d) {
if (!VOWELS.count(word[i])) {
curr2 += d;
return;
}
const auto x = word[i] - 'a';
if (cnt[x] == 0) {
++curr1;
}
cnt[x] += d;
if (cnt[x] == 0) {
--curr1;
}
};
int64_t result = 0;
for (int right = 0, left = 0; right < size(word); ++right) {
update(right, +1);
for (; curr1 >= size(VOWELS) && curr2 >= k; ++left) {
result += size(word) - right;
update(left, -1);
}
}
return result;
};
return count(k) - count(k + 1);
}
};