2900. Longest Unequal Adjacent Groups Subsequence I
Description
You are given a string array words
and a binary array groups
both of length n
.
A subsequence of words
is alternating if for any two consecutive strings in the sequence, their corresponding elements at the same indices in groups
are different (that is, there cannot be consecutive 0 or 1).
Your task is to select the longest alternating subsequence from words
.
Return the selected subsequence. If there are multiple answers, return any of them.
Note: The elements in words
are distinct.
Example 1:
Input: words = ["e","a","b"], groups = [0,0,1]
Output: ["e","b"]
Explanation: A subsequence that can be selected is ["e","b"]
because groups[0] != groups[2]
. Another subsequence that can be selected is ["a","b"]
because groups[1] != groups[2]
. It can be demonstrated that the length of the longest subsequence of indices that satisfies the condition is 2
.
Example 2:
Input: words = ["a","b","c","d"], groups = [1,0,1,1]
Output: ["a","b","c"]
Explanation: A subsequence that can be selected is ["a","b","c"]
because groups[0] != groups[1]
and groups[1] != groups[2]
. Another subsequence that can be selected is ["a","b","d"]
because groups[0] != groups[1]
and groups[1] != groups[3]
. It can be shown that the length of the longest subsequence of indices that satisfies the condition is 3
.
Constraints:
1 <= n == words.length == groups.length <= 100
1 <= words[i].length <= 10
groups[i]
is either0
or1.
words
consists of distinct strings.words[i]
consists of lowercase English letters.
Solutions
Solution 1: Greedy
We can traverse the array $groups$, and for the current index $i$, if $i=0$ or $groups[i] \neq groups[i - 1]$, we add $words[i]$ to the answer array.
The time complexity is $O(n)$, where $n$ is the length of the array $groups$. The space complexity is $O(n)$.
Python3
class Solution:
def getLongestSubsequence(self, words: List[str], groups: List[int]) -> List[str]:
return [words[i] for i, x in enumerate(groups) if i == 0 or x != groups[i - 1]]
Java
class Solution {
public List<String> getLongestSubsequence(String[] words, int[] groups) {
int n = groups.length;
List<String> ans = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
if (i == 0 || groups[i] != groups[i - 1]) {
ans.add(words[i]);
}
}
return ans;
}
}
C++
class Solution {
public:
vector<string> getLongestSubsequence(vector<string>& words, vector<int>& groups) {
int n = groups.size();
vector<string> ans;
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
if (i == 0 || groups[i] != groups[i - 1]) {
ans.emplace_back(words[i]);
}
}
return ans;
}
};
Go
func getLongestSubsequence(words []string, groups []int) (ans []string) {
for i, x := range groups {
if i == 0 || x != groups[i-1] {
ans = append(ans, words[i])
}
}
return
}
TypeScript
function getLongestSubsequence(words: string[], groups: number[]): string[] {
const ans: string[] = [];
for (let i = 0; i < groups.length; ++i) {
if (i === 0 || groups[i] !== groups[i - 1]) {
ans.push(words[i]);
}
}
return ans;
}
Rust
impl Solution {
pub fn get_longest_subsequence(words: Vec<String>, groups: Vec<i32>) -> Vec<String> {
let mut ans = Vec::new();
for (i, &g) in groups.iter().enumerate() {
if i == 0 || g != groups[i - 1] {
ans.push(words[i].clone());
}
}
ans
}
}