You are given a string, S, and a list of words, L, that are all of the same length. Find all starting indices of substring(s) in S that is a concatenation of each word in L exactly once and without any intervening characters.
For example, given:
S: "barfoothefoobarman"
L: ["foo", "bar"]
You should return the indices: [0,9]
.
(order does not matter).
public class Solution { public ArrayList<Integer> findSubstring(String S, String[] L) { ArrayList<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>(); int wordLen = L[0].length(); int numOfWords = L.length; int length = wordLen * numOfWords; // substring length if (S.length() < length) return list; // initialize a hash map to facilitate the word match by word counting HashMap<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<String, Integer>(); for (String word : L) { if (!map.containsKey(word)) { map.put(word, 1); } else { map.put(word, map.get(word) + 1); } } for (int i = 0; i <= S.length() - length; i++) { String substr = S.substring(i, i + length); HashMap<String, Integer> map2 = (HashMap<String, Integer>) map .clone(); // partition the substring into the words of equal length while (true) { String word = substr.substring(0, wordLen); if (map2.containsKey(word)) { int num = map2.get(word) - 1; // not found: too many occurrences if (num < 0) { break; } map2.put(word, num); substr = substr.substring(wordLen); // found if (substr.isEmpty()) { list.add(i); break; } } // not found: unmatched else { break; } } } return list; } }