Count Substrings That Satisfy K-Constraint II — C++

// Time:  O(n)
// Space: O(n)

// two pointers, sliding window, prefix sum, hash table
class Solution {
public:
    vector<long long> countKConstraintSubstrings(string s, int k, vector<vector<int>>& queries) {
        const auto& count = [](int64_t l) {
            return (l + 1) * l / 2;
        };

        vector<int64_t> prefix(size(s) + 1);
        vector<int> lookup(size(s), -1);
        for (int right = 0, left = 0, cnt = 0; right < size(s); ++right) {
            cnt += s[right] == '1' ? 1 : 0;
            while (!(cnt <= k || (right - left + 1) - cnt <= k)) {
                cnt -= s[left++] == '1' ? 1 : 0;
            }
            prefix[right + 1] = prefix[right] + (right - left + 1);
            lookup[left] = right;
        }
        assert(lookup[0] != -1);
        for (int i = 0; i + 1 < size(s); ++i) {
            if (lookup[i + 1] == -1) {
                lookup[i + 1] = lookup[i];
            }
        }
        vector<long long> result(size(queries));
        for (int i = 0; i < size(queries); ++i) {
            const int left = queries[i][0], right = queries[i][1];
            const int new_right = min(lookup[left], right);
            result[i] = count(new_right - left + 1) + (prefix[right + 1] - prefix[new_right + 1]);
        }
        return result;
    }
};