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1208. Get Equal Substrings Within Budget

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Problem Statement

1208. Get Equal Substrings Within Budget

Medium


You are given two strings s and t of the same length and an integer maxCost.

You want to change s to t. Changing the ith character of s to ith character of t costs |s[i] - t[i]| (i.e., the absolute difference between the ASCII values of the characters).

Return the maximum length of a substring of s that can be changed to be the same as the corresponding substring of t with a cost less than or equal to maxCost. If there is no substring from s that can be changed to its corresponding substring from t, return 0.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "abcd", t = "bcdf", maxCost = 3
Output: 3
Explanation: "abc" of s can change to "bcd".
That costs 3, so the maximum length is 3.

Example 2:

Input: s = "abcd", t = "cdef", maxCost = 3
Output: 1
Explanation: Each character in s costs 2 to change to character in t,  so the maximum length is 1.

Example 3:

Input: s = "abcd", t = "acde", maxCost = 0
Output: 1
Explanation: You cannot make any change, so the maximum length is 1.

 

Constraints:

Java

Source file
class Solution {
    public int equalSubstring(String s, String t, int maxCost) {
        int lt = 0, rt = 0, cost = 0, maxLen = 0, n = s.length();
        int diff[] = new int[n];
        while (rt < n) {
            diff[rt] = Math.abs(s.charAt(rt) - t.charAt(rt));
            cost += diff[rt++];
            while (cost > maxCost)
                cost -= diff[lt++];
            maxLen = Math.max(maxLen, rt - lt);
        }
        return maxLen;
    }
}