Medium
Longest Balanced Substring II — C++
Full explanation · Time O(n) · Space O(n)
// Time: O(n)
// Space: O(n)
// hash table, prefix sum
class Solution {
private:
template <typename T>
struct PairHash {
size_t operator()(const pair<T, T>& p) const {
size_t seed = 0;
seed ^= std::hash<T>{}(p.first) + 0x9e3779b9 + (seed<<6) + (seed>>2);
seed ^= std::hash<T>{}(p.second) + 0x9e3779b9 + (seed<<6) + (seed>>2);
return seed;
}
};
public:
int longestBalanced(string s) {
const auto& count1 = [&]() {
int result = 0, cnt = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < size(s); ++i) {
++cnt;
if (i + 1 == size(s) || s[i + 1] != s[i]) {
result = max(result, cnt);
cnt = 0;
}
}
return result;
};
const auto& count2 = [&](auto a, auto b) {
int result = 0, cnt = 0;
unordered_map<int, int> lookup = {{cnt, -1}};
for (int i = 0; i < size(s); ++i) {
if (s[i] == a) {
++cnt;
} else if (s[i] == b) {
--cnt;
} else {
cnt = 0;
lookup = {{cnt, i}};
continue;
}
if (lookup.count(cnt)) {
result = max(result, i - lookup[cnt]);
} else {
lookup[cnt] = i;
}
}
return result;
};
const auto& count3 = [&]() {
int result = 0, a = 0, b = 0;
unordered_map<pair<int, int>, int, PairHash<int>> lookup = {{{a, b}, -1}};
for (int i = 0; i < size(s); ++i) {
if (s[i] == 'a') {
++a;
} else if (s[i] == 'b') {
++b;
} else {
--a;
--b;
}
if (lookup.count({a, b})) {
result = max(result, i - lookup[{a, b}]);
} else {
lookup[{a, b}] = i;
}
}
return result;
};
return max({count1(),
count2('a', 'b'), count2('b', 'c'), count2('c', 'a'),
count3()});
}
};