How to Count Binary Substrings in Java
The challenge
Give a string s
, count the number of non-empty (contiguous) substrings that have the same number of 0’s and 1’s, and all the 0’s and all the 1’s in these substrings are grouped consecutively.
Substrings that occur multiple times are counted the number of times they occur.
Example 1:
Example 2:
Note:s.length
will be between 1 and 50,000.s
will only consist of “0” or “1” characters.
The solution in Java code
class Solution {
public int countBinarySubstrings(String s) {
int arr [] = new int[2];
int res = 0;
if (s.charAt(0) == '0') arr[0]++;
else arr[1]++;
for (int i = 1; i < s.length(); i++) {
char ch = s.charAt(i);
if (ch != s.charAt(i-1)) arr[ch - '0'] = 1;
else arr[ch - '0']++;
if (arr[1 - (ch - '0')] > 0) {
arr[1 - (ch - '0')]--;
res++;
}
}
return res;
}
}