LeetCode 249: Group Shifted Strings


LeetCode: Group Shifted Strings | CrazyEgg
Given a string, we can "shift" each of its letter to its successive letter, for example: "abc" -> "bcd". We can keep "shifting" which forms the sequence:



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"abc" -> "bcd" -> ... -> "xyz"

Given a list of strings which contains only lowercase alphabets, group all strings that belong to the same shifting sequence.

For example.

given: ["abc", "bcd", "acef", "xyz", "az", "ba", "a", "z"], Return:

[ ["abc","bcd","xyz"], ["az","ba"], ["acef"], ["a","z"] ]
Note: For the return value, each inner list’s elements must follow the lexicographic order.

X.
https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/20722/my-concise-java-solution/
https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/37916/5ms-java-solution
Two suggestions: (1) Use a StringBuilder instead of key += c; (2) Abstract key encoding logic into one function for better readability.
    public List<List<String>> groupStrings(String[] ss) {
    Map<String, List<String>> map = new HashMap<>();
    
    for(String s: ss){
        String key = getTag(s);
        List<String> value = map.get(key);
        if(value == null){
            value = new ArrayList<>();
            map.put(key, value);
        }
        
        value.add(s);
    }
        
    List<List<String>> ret = new ArrayList<>();
    for(List<String> lst: map.values()){
        Collections.sort(lst); // dont forget to sort.
        ret.add(lst);
    }
        
    return ret;
}

String getTag(String s){
    int diff = (int)s.charAt(0) - (int)'a';
    
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for(char c: s.toCharArray())
        sb.append((c+26-diff)%26);
    
    return sb.toString();
}
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/group-shifted-string/
string getDiffString(string str)
{
    string shift = "";
    for (int i = 1; i < str.length(); i++)
    {
        int dif = str[i] - str[i-1];
        if (dif < 0)
            dif += ALPHA;
 
        // Representing the difference as char
        shift += (dif + 'a');
    }
 
    // This string will be 1 less length than str
    return shift;
}
 
// Method for grouping shifted string
void groupShiftedString(string str[], int n)
{
    // map for storing indices of string which are
    // in same group
    map< string, vector<int> > groupMap;
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        string diffStr = getDiffString(str[i]);
        groupMap[diffStr].push_back(i);
    }
 
    // iterating through map to print group
    for (auto it=groupMap.begin(); it!=groupMap.end();
                                                it++)
    {
        vector<int> v = it->second;
        for (int i = 0; i < v.size(); i++)
            cout << str[v[i]] << " ";
        cout << endl;
    }
}

http://www.chenguanghe.com/group-shifted-strings/
可以看出, 当一个string的字符之间的距离决定了shift后的string. 所以对字符之间的距离进行记录, 当做key, 就可以找到. 这里先取一下string首字母当做offset, 然后算距离. 最后记录在一个key(string)中.
  public List<List<String>> groupStrings(String[] strings) {
        List<List<String>> res = new ArrayList<List<String>>();
        HashMap<String, List<String>> maps = new HashMap<>();
        for(int i = 0 ; i < strings.length; i++) {
            String key = "";
            int offset = strings[i].charAt(0) - 'a';
            for(int j = 1; j < strings[i].length(); j++) {
                key+= (strings[i].charAt(j) - offset + 26) % 26;
            }
            if(!maps.containsKey(key))
                maps.put(key,new ArrayList<>());
            maps.get(key).add(strings[i]);
        }
        for(List<String> list : maps.values()){
            Collections.sort(list);
            res.add(list);
        }
        return res;
    }
http://buttercola.blogspot.com/2015/08/leetcode-group-shifted-strings.html
The problem looks quite like the grouping anagrams. So the idea is the same: for each string, find out its "original" format, and check if the hash map contains this original string. If yes, put into the map. 
==> It's better to first put each string to its group, then sort each group.
public class Solution {
    public List<List<String>> groupStrings(String[] strings) {
        List<List<String>> result = new ArrayList<List<String>>();
        if (strings == null || strings.length == 0) {
            return result;
        }
         
        Arrays.sort(strings, new LexComparator());
         
        Map<String, List<String>> map = new HashMap<String, List<String>>();
         
        for (String s : strings) {
            StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
            int distance = Character.getNumericValue(s.charAt(0)) - 'a';
            for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
                int val = Character.getNumericValue(s.charAt(i)) - distance;
                val = val < 'a' ? val + 26 : val;
                char ori = (char) val;
                sb.append(ori);
            }
            String original = sb.toString();
            if (map.containsKey(original)) {
                List<String> list = map.get(original);
                list.add(s);
                map.put(original, list);
            } else {
                List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
                list.add(s);
                map.put(original, list);
            }
        }
         
        // Iterate the map
        Iterator it = map.entrySet().iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
            Map.Entry pair = (Map.Entry) it.next();
            result.add((List<String>) pair.getValue());
        }
         
        return result;
    }
     
    private class LexComparator implements Comparator<String> {
        @Override
        public int compare(String a, String b) {
            if (a.length() != b.length()) {
                return a.length() - b.length();
            }
             
            for (int i = 0; i < a.length(); i++) {
                if (a.charAt(i) != b.charAt(i)) {
                    return a.charAt(i) - b.charAt(i);
                }
            }
            return 0;
        }
    }
}
https://leetcode.com/discuss/50557/4ms-easy-c-solution-with-explanations
this manner is adopted: for a string s of length n, we encode its shifting feature as "s[1] - s[0], s[2] - s[1], ..., s[n - 1] - s[n - 2],".
vector<vector<string>> groupStrings(vector<string>& strings) { unordered_map<string, vector<string> > mp; for (string s : strings) mp[shift(s)].push_back(s); vector<vector<string> > groups; for (auto m : mp) { vector<string> group = m.second; sort(group.begin(), group.end()); groups.push_back(group); } return groups; } private: string shift(string& s) { string t; int n = s.length(); for (int i = 1; i < n; i++) { int diff = s[i] - s[i - 1]; if (diff < 0) diff += 26; t += 'a' + diff + ','; } return t; }

    public List<List<String>> groupStrings(String[] strings) {

        assert strings != null : "null array";

        List<List<String>> result = new ArrayList<>();
        Map<String, List<String>> map = new HashMap<>();

        for (String s : strings) {
            String code = getFeatureCode(s);
            List<String> val;
            if (!map.containsKey(code)) {
                val = new ArrayList<>();
            } else {
                val = map.get(code);
            }
            val.add(s);
            map.put(code, val);
        }

        for (String key : map.keySet()) {
            List<String> val = map.get(key);
            Collections.sort(val);
            result.add(val);
        }

        return result;
    }

    private String getFeatureCode(String s) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append("#");
        for (int i = 1; i < s.length(); i++) {
           int tmp = ((s.charAt(i) - s.charAt(i - 1)) + 26) % 26;
            sb.append(tmp).append("#");
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

https://leetcode.com/discuss/64979/simple-solution-in-java-with-detailed-explaination
public List<List<String>> groupStrings(String[] strings) { List<List<String>> res = new ArrayList<List<String>>(); HashMap<List<Integer>, List<String>> map = new HashMap<List<Integer>, List<String>>(); for(int i=0; i<strings.length; i++) { List<Integer> curKey = new ArrayList<Integer>(); String str = strings[i]; int length = str.length(); curKey.add(length); for(int j=1; j<length; j++) { int offset = str.charAt(j) - str.charAt(j-1); int val = offset > 0 ? offset : 26 + offset; curKey.add(val); } if (map.containsKey(curKey)) { List<String> tmp = map.get(curKey); tmp.add(str); } else { List<String> tmp = new ArrayList<String>(); tmp.add(str); res.add(tmp); map.put(curKey, tmp); } } for(int i=0; i<res.size(); i++) { List<String> tmp = res.get(i); Collections.sort(tmp); } return res; }
Nice! Two suggestions: (1) Use a StringBuilder instead of key += c; (2) Abstract key encoding logic into one function for better readability.
https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/20755/1-4-lines-in-java
public List<List<String>> groupStrings(String[] strings) { return new ArrayList(Stream.of(strings).sorted().collect(Collectors.groupingBy( s -> s.chars().mapToObj(c -> (c - s.charAt(0) + 26) % 26) .collect(Collectors.toList()) )).values()); }
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