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1593. Split a String into the Max Number of Unique Substrings

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Problem Statement

1593. Split a String Into the Max Number of Unique Substrings

Medium


Given a string s, return the maximum number of unique substrings that the given string can be split into.

You can split string s into any list of non-empty substrings, where the concatenation of the substrings forms the original string. However, you must split the substrings such that all of them are unique.

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "ababccc"
Output: 5
Explanation: One way to split maximally is ['a', 'b', 'ab', 'c', 'cc']. Splitting like ['a', 'b', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'cc'] is not valid as you have 'a' and 'b' multiple times.

Example 2:

Input: s = "aba"
Output: 2
Explanation: One way to split maximally is ['a', 'ba'].

Example 3:

Input: s = "aa"
Output: 1
Explanation: It is impossible to split the string any further.

 

Constraints:

Java — backtrack prune

Source file
class Solution {
    int maxUniqueSubstrings = 0;

    public int maxUniqueSplit(String s) {
        Set<String> seen = new HashSet<>();
        solve(s, 0, s.length(), 0, seen);
        return maxUniqueSubstrings;
    }

    private void solve(String s, int idx, int n, int ct, Set<String> seen) {
        if (idx == n) {
            maxUniqueSubstrings = Math.max(maxUniqueSubstrings, ct);
            return;
        }
        if (maxUniqueSubstrings > ct + n - idx)
            return;
        for (int i = idx + 1; i <= n; i++) {
            String sub = s.substring(idx, i);
            if (!seen.contains(sub)) {
                seen.add(sub);
                solve(s, i, n, ct + 1, seen);
                seen.remove(sub);
            }
        }
    }
}