[dolphinflow86] WEEK 05 Solutions

best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stock/dolphinflow86.py

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+# 1) Keep track of local minimum and use local minimum to update max profile while interating prices.
+# TC: O(N) where N is the length of prices
+# SC: O(1)
+class Solution:
+    def maxProfit(self, prices: List[int]) -> int:
+        min_price = prices[0]
+        max_profit = 0
+
+        for price in prices:
+            max_profit = max(max_profit, price - min_price)
+            min_price = min(min_price, price)
+
+        return max_profit

encode-and-decode-strings/dolphinflow86.py

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+# 1) Prepend each word with its length and a delimiter '%'.
+# TC: encode O(N) where N is the len(str), decode O(N) where N is the len(s)
+# SC: O(N) for storing the encoded string
+class Solution:
+
+    def encode(self, strs: list[str]) -> str:
+        answer = ""
+        for s in strs:
+            answer += f"{len(s)}%{s}"
+        return answer
+
+    def decode(self, s: str) -> list[str]:
+        left = 0
+        right = 0
+        str_len = len(s)
+
+        result = []
+        while right < str_len:
+            while s[right] != "%":
+                right += 1
+
+            num_len = int(s[left:right])
+            start = right + 1
+            word = s[start : start + num_len]
+            result.append(word)
+
+            left = start + num_len
+            right = left
+
+        return result

group-anagrams/dolphinflow86.py

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+# 1) Group words by their sorted form using defaultdict. While iterating the strs, sort each word and append original word to the corresponding list. After then convert dict to 2 dimensional list and return the list. 
+# TC: O(N*LlogL) where N is length of strs, L is max length of a word.
+# SC: O(N*L)
+
+class Solution:
+    def groupAnagrams(self, strs: List[str]) -> List[List[str]]:
+        groups = defaultdict(list)
+
+        for str in strs:
+            sorted_str = "".join(sorted(str))
+            groups[sorted_str].append(str)
+
+        return list(groups.values())