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Lc0424

05 August 2008

424 Longest Repeating Character Replacement

给一个string和k,做k次操作改变字符,使某个子字符串均为重复的字符,最长

need to know how many letters in our substring that we need to replace. To find out the lettersToReplace = (end - start + 1) - mostFreqLetter;

Time Complexity: O(N)

Space Complexity: O(26) = O(1)

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class Solution {
    public int characterReplacement(String s, int k) {
        int[] freq = new int[26];
        int mostFreqLetter = 0;
        int left = 0;
        int max = 0;
        
        for(int right = 0; right < s.length(); right++){
            freq[s.charAt(right) - 'A']++;
            mostFreqLetter = Math.max(mostFreqLetter, freq[s.charAt(right) - 'A']);
            
            int lettersToChange = (right - left + 1) - mostFreqLetter;
            if(lettersToChange > k){
                freq[s.charAt(left) - 'A']--;
                left++;
            }
            
            max = Math.max(max, right - left + 1);
        }
        
        return max;
    }
}