925. Long Pressed Name
Description
Your friend is typing his name
into a keyboard. Sometimes, when typing a character c
, the key might get long pressed, and the character will be typed 1 or more times.
You examine the typed
characters of the keyboard. Return True
if it is possible that it was your friends name, with some characters (possibly none) being long pressed.
Example 1:
Input: name = "alex", typed = "aaleex" Output: true Explanation: 'a' and 'e' in 'alex' were long pressed.
Example 2:
Input: name = "saeed", typed = "ssaaedd" Output: false Explanation: 'e' must have been pressed twice, but it was not in the typed output.
Constraints:
1 <= name.length, typed.length <= 1000
name
andtyped
consist of only lowercase English letters.
Solutions
Solution 1: Two Pointers
We use two pointers $i$ and $j$ to point to the first character of the strings typed
and name
respectively, and then start traversing. If typed[j]
is not equal to name[i]
, it means the two strings do not match, and we directly return False
. Otherwise, we find the next position of the continuous identical characters, denoted as $x$ and $y$ respectively. If $x - i > y - j$, it means the number of characters in typed
is less than the number of characters in name
, and we directly return False
. Otherwise, we update $i$ and $j$ to $x$ and $y$ respectively, continue traversing, until $i$ and $j$ have traversed name
and typed
respectively, and return True
.
The time complexity is $O(m + n)$, where $m$ and $n$ are the lengths of the strings name
and typed
respectively. The space complexity is $O(1)`.
Python3
class Solution:
def isLongPressedName(self, name: str, typed: str) -> bool:
m, n = len(name), len(typed)
i = j = 0
while i < m and j < n:
if name[i] != typed[j]:
return False
x = i + 1
while x < m and name[x] == name[i]:
x += 1
y = j + 1
while y < n and typed[y] == typed[j]:
y += 1
if x - i > y - j:
return False
i, j = x, y
return i == m and j == n
Java
class Solution {
public boolean isLongPressedName(String name, String typed) {
int m = name.length(), n = typed.length();
int i = 0, j = 0;
while (i < m && j < n) {
if (name.charAt(i) != typed.charAt(j)) {
return false;
}
int x = i + 1;
while (x < m && name.charAt(x) == name.charAt(i)) {
++x;
}
int y = j + 1;
while (y < n && typed.charAt(y) == typed.charAt(j)) {
++y;
}
if (x - i > y - j) {
return false;
}
i = x;
j = y;
}
return i == m && j == n;
}
}
C++
class Solution {
public:
bool isLongPressedName(string name, string typed) {
int m = name.length(), n = typed.length();
int i = 0, j = 0;
while (i < m && j < n) {
if (name[i] != typed[j]) {
return false;
}
int x = i + 1;
while (x < m && name[x] == name[i]) {
++x;
}
int y = j + 1;
while (y < n && typed[y] == typed[j]) {
++y;
}
if (x - i > y - j) {
return false;
}
i = x;
j = y;
}
return i == m && j == n;
}
};
Go
func isLongPressedName(name string, typed string) bool {
m, n := len(name), len(typed)
i, j := 0, 0
for i < m && j < n {
if name[i] != typed[j] {
return false
}
x, y := i+1, j+1
for x < m && name[x] == name[i] {
x++
}
for y < n && typed[y] == typed[j] {
y++
}
if x-i > y-j {
return false
}
i, j = x, y
}
return i == m && j == n
}
TypeScript
function isLongPressedName(name: string, typed: string): boolean {
const [m, n] = [name.length, typed.length];
let i = 0;
let j = 0;
while (i < m && j < n) {
if (name[i] !== typed[j]) {
return false;
}
let x = i + 1;
while (x < m && name[x] === name[i]) {
x++;
}
let y = j + 1;
while (y < n && typed[y] === typed[j]) {
y++;
}
if (x - i > y - j) {
return false;
}
i = x;
j = y;
}
return i === m && j === n;
}
Rust
impl Solution {
pub fn is_long_pressed_name(name: String, typed: String) -> bool {
let (m, n) = (name.len(), typed.len());
let (mut i, mut j) = (0, 0);
let s: Vec<char> = name.chars().collect();
let t: Vec<char> = typed.chars().collect();
while i < m && j < n {
if s[i] != t[j] {
return false;
}
let mut x = i + 1;
while x < m && s[x] == s[i] {
x += 1;
}
let mut y = j + 1;
while y < n && t[y] == t[j] {
y += 1;
}
if x - i > y - j {
return false;
}
i = x;
j = y;
}
i == m && j == n
}
}