482. License Key Formatting
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:
The length of string S will not exceed 12,000, and K is a positive integer.
String S consists only of alphanumerical characters (a-z and/or A-Z and/or 0-9) and dashes(-).
String S is non-empty.
string licenseKeyFormatting(string S, int K) { // time: O(n); space: O(n)
string res;
int cnt = 0;
for (int i = S.length() - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
if (S[i] == '-') continue;
res += toupper(S[i]);
if (++cnt % K == 0) {
res += '-';
cnt = 0;
}
}
if (!res.empty() && res.back() == '-') res.pop_back();
reverse(res.begin(), res.end());
return res;
}
string licenseKeyFormatting(string S, int K) { // time: O(n); space: O(n)
string res;
for (int i = S.length() - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
if (S[i] == '-') continue;
res += (res.length() % (K + 1) ) == K ? "-" : "";
res += toupper(S[i]);
}
reverse(res.begin(), res.end());
return res;
}
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