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1422. Maximum Score After Splitting a String

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1422. Maximum Score After Splitting a String

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Given a string s of zeros and ones, return the maximum score after splitting the string into two non-empty substrings (i.e. left substring and right substring).

The score after splitting a string is the number of zeros in the left substring plus the number of ones in the right substring.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "011101"
Output: 5 
Explanation: 
All possible ways of splitting s into two non-empty substrings are:
left = "0" and right = "11101", score = 1 + 4 = 5 
left = "01" and right = "1101", score = 1 + 3 = 4 
left = "011" and right = "101", score = 1 + 2 = 3 
left = "0111" and right = "01", score = 1 + 1 = 2 
left = "01110" and right = "1", score = 2 + 1 = 3

Example 2:

Input: s = "00111"
Output: 5
Explanation: When left = "00" and right = "111", we get the maximum score = 2 + 3 = 5

Example 3:

Input: s = "1111"
Output: 3

 

Constraints:

Java — 1 pass

Source file
class Solution {
    public int maxScore(String s) {
        int n = s.length(), nZeros = 0, nOnes = 0, maxScore = -n;
        for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) {
            if (s.charAt(i) == '0')
                nZeros++;
            else
                nOnes++;
            // At posn. i, score = nZeros + totalOnes(Unknown) - nOnes
            maxScore = Math.max(maxScore, nZeros - nOnes);
        }
        nOnes += s.charAt(n - 1) - '0';
        return maxScore + nOnes; // As now, totalOnes is known.
    }
}