滑动窗口思想,就是利用双指针技巧,以及map这一数据结构,维护一个不断扩展、伸缩的窗口,在窗口内探测记录我们感兴趣的结果。
public class Solution {
public List<Integer> slidingWindowTemplate(String s, String t) {
//init a collection or int value to save the result according the question.
List<Integer> result = new LinkedList<>();
if(t.length()> s.length()) return result;
//create a hashmap to save the Characters of the target substring.
//(K, V) = (Character, Frequence of the Characters)
Map<Character, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
for(char c : t.toCharArray()){
map.put(c, map.getOrDefault(c, 0) + 1);
}
//maintain a counter to check whether match the target string.
int counter = map.size();//must be the map size, NOT the string size because the char may be duplicate.
//Two Pointers: begin - left pointer of the window; end - right pointer of the window
int begin = 0, end = 0;
//the length of the substring which match the target string.
int len = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
//loop at the begining of the source string
while(end < s.length()){
char c = s.charAt(end);//get a character
if( map.containsKey(c) ){
map.put(c, map.get(c)-1);// plus or minus one
if(map.get(c) == 0) counter--;//modify the counter according the requirement(different condition).
}
end++;
//increase begin pointer to make it invalid/valid again
while(counter == 0 /* counter condition. different question may have different condition */){
char tempc = s.charAt(begin);//***be careful here: choose the char at begin pointer, NOT the end pointer
if(map.containsKey(tempc)){
map.put(tempc, map.get(tempc) + 1);//plus or minus one
if(map.get(tempc) > 0) counter++;//modify the counter according the requirement(different condition).
}
/* save / update(min/max) the result if find a target*/
// result collections or result int value
begin++;
}
}
return result;
}
}
Similar Questions:
https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-window-substring/ https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-substring-without-repeating-characters/ https://leetcode.com/problems/substring-with-concatenation-of-all-words/ https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-substring-with-at-most-two-distinct-characters/ https://leetcode.com/problems/find-all-anagrams-in-a-string/