Implement wildcard pattern matching with support for ‘?’ and ‘*’. Java Solution To understand this solution, you can use s=”aab” and p=”*ab”. public boolean isMatch(String s, String p) { int i = 0; int j = 0; int starIndex = -1; int iIndex = -1; while (i < s.length()) { if (j < p.length() … Read more
You are given a string, s, and a list of words, words, that are all of the same length. Find all starting indices of substring(s) in s that is a concatenation of each word in words exactly once and without any intervening characters. For example, given: s=”barfoothefoobarman” & words=[“foo”, “bar”], return [0,9]. Analysis This problem … Read more
Java Solution 1 – Recursive public TreeNode invertTree(TreeNode root) { helper(root); return root; } public void helper(TreeNode n){ if(n==null){ return; } TreeNode t = n.left; n.left = n.right; n.right = t; helper(n.left); helper(n.right); }public TreeNode invertTree(TreeNode root) { helper(root); return root; } public void helper(TreeNode n){ if(n==null){ return; } TreeNode t = … Read more
A message containing letters from A-Z is being encoded to numbers using the following mapping: ‘A’ -> 1 ‘B’ -> 2 … ‘Z’ -> 26 Given an encoded message containing digits, determine the total number of ways to decode it. Java Solution This problem can be solve by using dynamic programming. It is similar to … Read more
Implement the following operations of a stack using queues. push(x) — Push element x onto stack. pop() — Removes the element on top of the stack. top() — Get the top element. empty() — Return whether the stack is empty. Note: only standard queue operations are allowed, i.e., poll(), offer(), peek(), size() and isEmpty() in … Read more
Follow up for problem “Populating Next Right Pointers in Each Node“. What if the given tree could be any binary tree? Would your previous solution still work? Analysis Similar to Populating Next Right Pointers in Each Node, we have 4 pointers at 2 levels of the tree. Java Solution public void connect(TreeLinkNode root) { if(root … Read more
Implement a basic calculator to evaluate a simple expression string. The expression string may contain open ( and closing parentheses ), the plus + or minus sign -, non-negative integers and empty spaces.You may assume that the given expression is always valid. Some examples: “1 + 1” = 2, “(1)” = 1, “(1-(4-5))” = 2 … Read more
Find the total area covered by two rectilinear rectangles in a 2D plane. Each rectangle is defined by its bottom left corner and top right corner coordinates. Analysis This problem can be converted as a overlap internal problem. On the x-axis, there are (A,C) and (E,G); on the y-axis, there are (F,H) and (B,D). If … Read more
Analysis This problem is essentially a problem of processing 2*n edges. Each edge has a x-axis value and a height value. The key part is how to use the height heap to process each edge. Java Solution class Edge { int x; int height; boolean isStart; public Edge(int x, int height, boolean isStart) { … Read more
Given two words (start and end), and a dictionary, find all shortest transformation sequence(s) from start to end, such that: 1) Only one letter can be changed at a time, 2) Each intermediate word must exist in the dictionary. For example, given: start = “hit”, end = “cog”, and dict = [“hot”,”dot”,”dog”,”lot”,”log”], return: [ [“hit”,”hot”,”dot”,”dog”,”cog”], … Read more
Given an array of integers, find out whether there are two distinct indices i and j in the array such that the difference between nums[i] and nums[j] is at most t and the difference between i and j is at most k. Java Solution 1 – Simple This solution simple. Its time complexity is O(nlog(k)). … Read more
Given an array with n objects colored red, white or blue, sort them so that objects of the same color are adjacent, with the colors in the order red, white and blue. Here, we will use the integers 0, 1, and 2 to represent the color red, white, and blue respectively. Java Solution – Counting … Read more
Given a complete binary tree, count the number of nodes. The solution to this problem can be as simple as the following: public int countNodes(TreeNode root) { if(root == null){ return 0; } return 1 + countNodes(root.left) + countNodes(root.right); }public int countNodes(TreeNode root) { if(root == null){ return 0; } return 1 + countNodes(root.left) … Read more
Given preorder and inorder traversal of a tree, construct the binary tree. Analysis Consider the following example: in-order: 4 2 5 (1) 6 7 3 8 pre-order: (1) 2 4 5 3 7 6 8 From the pre-order array, we know that first element is the root. We can find the root in in-order array. … Read more
Given an array of non-negative integers, you are initially positioned at the first index of the array. Each element in the array represents your maximum jump length at that position. Your goal is to reach the last index in the minimum number of jumps. For example, given array A = [2,3,1,1,4], the minimum number of … Read more