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1653. Minimum Deletions to Make String Balanced

Description

You are given a string s consisting only of characters 'a' and 'b'​​​​.

You can delete any number of characters in s to make s balanced. s is balanced if there is no pair of indices (i,j) such that i < j and s[i] = 'b' and s[j]= 'a'.

Return the minimum number of deletions needed to make s balanced.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "aababbab"
Output: 2
Explanation: You can either:
Delete the characters at 0-indexed positions 2 and 6 ("aababbab" -> "aaabbb"), or
Delete the characters at 0-indexed positions 3 and 6 ("aababbab" -> "aabbbb").

Example 2:

Input: s = "bbaaaaabb"
Output: 2
Explanation: The only solution is to delete the first two characters.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 105
  • s[i] is 'a' or 'b'​​.

Solutions

Dynamic programming.

  • class Solution {
    public int minimumDeletions(String s) {
        int n = s.length();
        int[] f = new int[n + 1];
        int b = 0;
        for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i) {
            if (s.charAt(i - 1) == 'b') {
                f[i] = f[i - 1];
                ++b;
            } else {
                f[i] = Math.min(f[i - 1] + 1, b);
            }
        }
        return f[n];
    }
}

  • class Solution {
public:
    int minimumDeletions(string s) {
        int n = s.size();
        int f[n + 1];
        memset(f, 0, sizeof(f));
        int b = 0;
        for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i) {
            if (s[i - 1] == 'b') {
                f[i] = f[i - 1];
                ++b;
            } else {
                f[i] = min(f[i - 1] + 1, b);
            }
        }
        return f[n];
    }
};

  • class Solution:
    def minimumDeletions(self, s: str) -> int:
        n = len(s)
        f = [0] * (n + 1)
        b = 0
        for i, c in enumerate(s, 1):
            if c == 'b':
                f[i] = f[i - 1]
                b += 1
            else:
                f[i] = min(f[i - 1] + 1, b)
        return f[n]


  • func minimumDeletions(s string) int {
	n := len(s)
	f := make([]int, n+1)
	b := 0
	for i, c := range s {
		i++
		if c == 'b' {
			f[i] = f[i-1]
			b++
		} else {
			f[i] = min(f[i-1]+1, b)
		}
	}
	return f[n]
}

  • function minimumDeletions(s: string): number {
    const n = s.length;
    const f = new Array(n + 1).fill(0);
    let b = 0;
    for (let i = 1; i <= n; ++i) {
        if (s.charAt(i - 1) === 'b') {
            f[i] = f[i - 1];
            ++b;
        } else {
            f[i] = Math.min(f[i - 1] + 1, b);
        }
    }
    return f[n];
}

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