今天和大家聊的问题叫做 最短单词距离II,我们先来看题面:https://leetcode-cn.com/problems/shortest-word-distance-ii/
his is a follow up of Shortest Word Distance. The only difference is now you are given the list of words and your method will be called repeatedly many times with different parameters. How would you optimize it?Design a class which receives a list of words in the constructor, and implements a method that takes two words word1 and word2 and return the shortest distance between these two words in the list.请设计一个类,使该类的构造函数能够接收一个单词列表。然后再实现一个方法,该方法能够分别接收两个单词 word1 和 word2,并返回列表中这两个单词之间的最短距离。您的方法将被以不同的参数调用 多次。
示例
示例: 假设 words = ["practice", "makes", "perfect", "coding", "makes"] 输入: word1 = “coding”, word2 = “practice” 输出: 3 输入: word1 = "makes", word2 = "coding" 输出: 1
解题
因为会多次调用,我们不能每次调用的时候再把这两个单词的下标找出来。我们可以用一个哈希表,在传入字符串数组时,就把每个单词的下标找出存入表中。这样当调用最短距离的方法时,我们只要遍历两个单词的下标列表就行了。具体的比较方法,则类似merge two list,每次比较两个list最小的两个值,得到一个差值。然后把较小的那个给去掉。因为我们遍历输入数组时是从前往后的,所以下标列表也是有序的。
public class WordDistance { HashMap<String, List<Integer>> map = new HashMap<String, List<Integer>>(); public WordDistance(String[] words) { // 统计每个单词出现的下标存入哈希表中 for(int i = 0; i < words.length; i++){ List<Integer> cnt = map.get(words[i]); if(cnt == null){ cnt = new ArrayList<Integer>(); } cnt.add(i); map.put(words[i], cnt); } } public int shortest(String word1, String word2) { List<Integer> idx1 = map.get(word1); List<Integer> idx2 = map.get(word2); int distance = Integer.MAX_VALUE; int i = 0, j = 0; // 每次比较两个下标列表最小的下标,然后把跳过较小的那个 while(i < idx1.size() && j < idx2.size()){ distance = Math.min(Math.abs(idx1.get(i) - idx2.get(j)), distance); if(idx1.get(i) < idx2.get(j)){ i++; } else { j++; } } return distance; } }
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