2042. Check if Numbers Are Ascending in a Sentence
Description
A sentence is a list of tokens separated by a single space with no leading or trailing spaces. Every token is either a positive number consisting of digits 0-9
with no leading zeros, or a word consisting of lowercase English letters.
- For example,
"a puppy has 2 eyes 4 legs"
is a sentence with seven tokens:"2"
and"4"
are numbers and the other tokens such as"puppy"
are words.
Given a string s
representing a sentence, you need to check if all the numbers in s
are strictly increasing from left to right (i.e., other than the last number, each number is strictly smaller than the number on its right in s
).
Return true
if so, or false
otherwise.
Example 1:
Input: s = "1 box has 3 blue 4 red 6 green and 12 yellow marbles" Output: true Explanation: The numbers in s are: 1, 3, 4, 6, 12. They are strictly increasing from left to right: 1 < 3 < 4 < 6 < 12.
Example 2:
Input: s = "hello world 5 x 5" Output: false Explanation: The numbers in s are: 5, 5. They are not strictly increasing.
Example 3:
Input: s = "sunset is at 7 51 pm overnight lows will be in the low 50 and 60 s" Output: false Explanation: The numbers in s are: 7, 51, 50, 60. They are not strictly increasing.
Constraints:
3 <= s.length <= 200
s
consists of lowercase English letters, spaces, and digits from0
to9
, inclusive.- The number of tokens in
s
is between2
and100
, inclusive. - The tokens in
s
are separated by a single space. - There are at least two numbers in
s
. - Each number in
s
is a positive number less than100
, with no leading zeros. s
contains no leading or trailing spaces.
Solutions
Solution 1: Simulation
We can split the string $s$ into several words by spaces. Then, for each word, check if it is a number. If it is a number, convert it to an integer, compare it with the previous number. If it is not strictly increasing, return false
. Otherwise, assign the current number to the previous number and continue the traversal.
If the traversal ends, it means that the numbers in the string are strictly increasing, so return true
.
The time complexity is $O(n)$, and the space complexity is $O(n)$. Here, $n$ is the length of the string $s$.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 |
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 |
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 |
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 |
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 |
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 |