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482. License Key Formatting

Level

Easy

Description

You are given a license key represented as a string S which consists only alphanumeric character and dashes. The string is separated into N+1 groups by N dashes.

Given a number K, we would want to reformat the strings such that each group contains exactly K characters, except for the first group which could be shorter than K, but still must contain at least one character. Furthermore, there must be a dash inserted between two groups and all lowercase letters should be converted to uppercase.

Given a non-empty string S and a number K, format the string according to the rules described above.

Example 1:

Input: S = “5F3Z-2e-9-w”, K = 4

Output: “5F3Z-2E9W”

Explanation: The string S has been split into two parts, each part has 4 characters. Note that the two extra dashes are not needed and can be removed.

Example 2:

Input: S = “2-5g-3-J”, K = 2

Output: “2-5G-3J”

Explanation: The string S has been split into three parts, each part has 2 characters except the first part as it could be shorter as mentioned above.

Note:

  1. The length of string S will not exceed 12,000, and K is a positive integer.
  2. String S consists only of alphanumerical characters (a-z and/or A-Z and/or 0-9) and dashes(-).
  3. String S is non-empty.

Solution

First turn all the letters in S to upper case and remove all dashes from S. Then loop over S from right to left and add a dash before every K characters. Finally, return the new string.

  • class Solution {
        public String licenseKeyFormatting(String S, int K) {
            S = S.toUpperCase();
            S = S.replaceAll("-", "");
            int length = S.length();
            StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(S);
            int count = 0;
            for (int i = length - 1; i > 0; i--) {
                count++;
                if (count == K) {
                    sb.insert(i, '-');
                    count = 0;
                }
            }
            return sb.toString();
        }
    }
    
  • class Solution:
        def licenseKeyFormatting(self, s: str, k: int) -> str:
            s = s.replace('-', '').upper()
            res = []
            cnt = (len(s) % k) or k
            t = 0
            for i, c in enumerate(s):
                res.append(c)
                t += 1
                if t == cnt:
                    t = 0
                    cnt = k
                    if i != len(s) - 1:
                        res.append('-')
            return ''.join(res)
    
    ############
    
    class Solution(object):
      def licenseKeyFormatting(self, S, K):
        """
        :type S: str
        :type K: int
        :rtype: str
        """
        s = S.split("-")
        s = "".join(s)
        n = len(s)
        start = n % K
        res = []
        if start != 0:
          res.append(s[:start].upper())
        for k in range(0, (len(s) - start) / K):
          res.append(s[start:start + K].upper())
          start += K
        return "-".join(res)
    
    
  • class Solution {
    public:
        string licenseKeyFormatting(string s, int k) {
            string ss = "";
            for (char c : s) {
                if (c == '-') continue;
                if ('a' <= c && c <= 'z') c += 'A' - 'a';
                ss += c;
            }
            int cnt = ss.size() % k;
            if (cnt == 0) cnt = k;
            int t = 0;
            string res = "";
            for (int i = 0; i < ss.size(); ++i) {
                res += ss[i];
                ++t;
                if (t == cnt) {
                    t = 0;
                    cnt = k;
                    if (i != ss.size() - 1) res += '-';
                }
            }
            return res;
        }
    };
    
  • func licenseKeyFormatting(s string, k int) string {
    	s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "-", "")
    	cnt := len(s) % k
    	if cnt == 0 {
    		cnt = k
    	}
    	t := 0
    	res := []byte{}
    	for i, c := range s {
    		res = append(res, byte(unicode.ToUpper(c)))
    		t++
    		if t == cnt {
    			t = 0
    			cnt = k
    			if i != len(s)-1 {
    				res = append(res, byte('-'))
    			}
    		}
    	}
    	return string(res)
    }
    

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