[LeetCode] Shortest Word Distance 最短单词距离

 

Given a list of words and two words word1 and word2, return the shortest distance between these two words in the list.

For example,
Assume that words = ["practice", "makes", "perfect", "coding", "makes"].

Given word1 = “coding”word2 = “practice”, return 3.
Given word1 = "makes"word2 = "coding", return 1.

Note:
You may assume that word1 does not equal to word2, and word1 and word2 are both in the list.

 

这道题让我们给了我们一个单词数组,又给定了两个单词,让我们求这两个单词之间的最小距离,限定了两个单词不同,而且都在数组中。我最先想到的方法比较笨,我首先想的是要用哈希表来做,建立每个单词和其所有出现位置数组的映射,但是后来想想,反正建立映射也要遍历一遍数组,我们还不如直接遍历一遍数组,直接把两个给定单词所有出现的位置分别存到两个数组里,然后我们在对两个数组进行两两比较更新结果,参见代码如下:

 

解法一:

class Solution {
public:
    int shortestDistance(vector<string>& words, string word1, string word2) {
        vector<int> idx1, idx2;
        int res = INT_MAX;
        for (int i = 0; i < words.size(); ++i) {
            if (words[i] == word1) idx1.push_back(i);
            else if (words[i] == word2) idx2.push_back(i);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < idx1.size(); ++i) {
            for (int j = 0; j < idx2.size(); ++j) {
                res = min(res, abs(idx1[i] - idx2[j]));
            }
        }
        return res;
    }
};

 

上面的那种方法并不高效,我们其实需要遍历一次数组就可以了,我们用两个变量p1,p2初始化为-1,然后我们遍历数组,遇到单词1,就将其位置存在p1里,若遇到单词2,就将其位置存在p2里,如果此时p1, p2都不为-1了,那么我们更新结果,参见代码如下:

 

解法二:

class Solution {
public:
    int shortestDistance(vector<string>& words, string word1, string word2) {
        int p1 = -1, p2 = -1, res = INT_MAX;
        for (int i = 0; i < words.size(); ++i) {
            if (words[i] == word1) p1 = i;
            else if (words[i] == word2) p2 = i;
            if (p1 != -1 && p2 != -1) res = min(res, abs(p1 - p2));
        }
        return res;
    }
};

 

下面这种方法只用一个辅助变量idx,初始化为-1,然后遍历数组,如果遇到等于两个单词中的任意一个的单词,我们在看idx是否为-1,若不为-1,且指向的单词和当前遍历到的单词不同,我们更新结果,参见代码如下:

 

解法三:

class Solution {
public:
    int shortestDistance(vector<string>& words, string word1, string word2) {
        int idx = -1, res = INT_MAX;
        for (int i = 0; i < words.size(); ++i) {
            if (words[i] == word1 || words[i] == word2) {
                if (idx != -1 && words[idx] != words[i]) {
                    res = min(res, i - idx);
                }
                idx = i;
            }
        }
        return res;
    }
};

 

类似题目:

Shortest Word Distance II

Shortest Word Distance III 

 

参考资料:

https://leetcode.com/discuss/50234/ac-java-clean-solution

https://leetcode.com/discuss/61820/java-only-need-to-keep-one-index

 

    原文作者:Grandyang
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