2047. Number of Valid Words in a Sentence

Description

A sentence consists of lowercase letters ('a' to 'z'), digits ('0' to '9'), hyphens ('-'), punctuation marks ('!', '.', and ','), and spaces (' ') only. Each sentence can be broken down into one or more tokens separated by one or more spaces ' '.

A token is a valid word if all three of the following are true:

It only contains lowercase letters, hyphens, and/or punctuation (no digits).
There is at most one hyphen '-'. If present, it must be surrounded by lowercase characters ("a-b" is valid, but "-ab" and "ab-" are not valid).
There is at most one punctuation mark. If present, it must be at the end of the token ("ab,", "cd!", and "." are valid, but "a!b" and "c.," are not valid).

Examples of valid words include "a-b.", "afad", "ba-c", "a!", and "!".

Given a string sentence, return the number of valid words in sentence.

Example 1:

Input: sentence = "cat and  dog"
Output: 3
Explanation: The valid words in the sentence are "cat", "and", and "dog".

Example 2:

Input: sentence = "!this  1-s b8d!"
Output: 0
Explanation: There are no valid words in the sentence.
"!this" is invalid because it starts with a punctuation mark.
"1-s" and "b8d" are invalid because they contain digits.

Example 3:

Input: sentence = "alice and  bob are playing stone-game10"
Output: 5
Explanation: The valid words in the sentence are "alice", "and", "bob", "are", and "playing".
"stone-game10" is invalid because it contains digits.

Constraints:

1 <= sentence.length <= 1000
sentence only contains lowercase English letters, digits, ' ', '-', '!', '.', and ','.
There will be at least 1 token.

Solutions

Solution 1: Simulation

First, we split the sentence into words by spaces, and then check each word to determine if it is a valid word.

For each word, we can use a boolean variable $\textit{st}$ to record whether a hyphen has already appeared, and then traverse each character in the word, judging according to the rules described in the problem.

For each character $s[i]$, we have the following cases:

If $s[i]$ is a digit, then $s$ is not a valid word, and we return $\text{false}$ directly;
If $s[i]$ is a punctuation mark ('!', '.', ','), and $i < \text{len}(s) - 1$, then $s$ is not a valid word, and we return $\text{false}$ directly;
If $s[i]$ is a hyphen, then we need to check if the following conditions are met:
- The hyphen can only appear once;
- The hyphen cannot appear at the beginning or end of the word;
- Both sides of the hyphen must be letters;
If $s[i]$ is a letter, then we do not need to do anything.

Finally, we count the number of valid words in the sentence.

The time complexity is $O(n)$, and the space complexity is $O(n)$. Here, $n$ is the length of the sentence.

Python3JavaC++GoTypeScript

class Solution:
    def countValidWords(self, sentence: str) -> int:
        def check(s: str) -> bool:
            st = False
            for i, c in enumerate(s):
                if c.isdigit() or (c in "!.," and i < len(s) - 1):
                    return False
                if c == "-":
                    if (
                        st
                        or i in (0, len(s) - 1)
                        or not s[i - 1].isalpha()
                        or not s[i + 1].isalpha()
                    ):
                        return False
                    st = True
            return True

        return sum(check(s) for s in sentence.split())

class Solution {
    public int countValidWords(String sentence) {
        int ans = 0;
        for (String s : sentence.split(" ")) {
            ans += check(s.toCharArray());
        }
        return ans;
    }

    private int check(char[] s) {
        if (s.length == 0) {
            return 0;
        }
        boolean st = false;
        for (int i = 0; i < s.length; ++i) {
            if (Character.isDigit(s[i])) {
                return 0;
            }
            if ((s[i] == '!' || s[i] == '.' || s[i] == ',') && i < s.length - 1) {
                return 0;
            }
            if (s[i] == '-') {
                if (st || i == 0 || i == s.length - 1) {
                    return 0;
                }
                if (!Character.isAlphabetic(s[i - 1]) || !Character.isAlphabetic(s[i + 1])) {
                    return 0;
                }
                st = true;
            }
        }
        return 1;
    }
}

class Solution {
public:
    int countValidWords(string sentence) {
        auto check = [](const string& s) -> int {
            bool st = false;
            for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); ++i) {
                if (isdigit(s[i])) {
                    return 0;
                }
                if ((s[i] == '!' || s[i] == '.' || s[i] == ',') && i < s.length() - 1) {
                    return 0;
                }
                if (s[i] == '-') {
                    if (st || i == 0 || i == s.length() - 1) {
                        return 0;
                    }
                    if (!isalpha(s[i - 1]) || !isalpha(s[i + 1])) {
                        return 0;
                    }
                    st = true;
                }
            }
            return 1;
        };

        int ans = 0;
        stringstream ss(sentence);
        string s;
        while (ss >> s) {
            ans += check(s);
        }
        return ans;
    }
};

func countValidWords(sentence string) (ans int) {
    check := func(s string) int {
        if len(s) == 0 {
            return 0
        }
        st := false
        for i, r := range s {
            if unicode.IsDigit(r) {
                return 0
            }
            if (r == '!' || r == '.' || r == ',') && i < len(s)-1 {
                return 0
            }
            if r == '-' {
                if st || i == 0 || i == len(s)-1 {
                    return 0
                }
                if !unicode.IsLetter(rune(s[i-1])) || !unicode.IsLetter(rune(s[i+1])) {
                    return 0
                }
                st = true
            }
        }
        return 1
    }
    for _, s := range strings.Fields(sentence) {
        ans += check(s)
    }
    return ans
}

function countValidWords(sentence: string): number {
    const check = (s: string): number => {
        if (s.length === 0) {
            return 0;
        }
        let st = false;
        for (let i = 0; i < s.length; ++i) {
            if (/\d/.test(s[i])) {
                return 0;
            }
            if (['!', '.', ','].includes(s[i]) && i < s.length - 1) {
                return 0;
            }
            if (s[i] === '-') {
                if (st || [0, s.length - 1].includes(i)) {
                    return 0;
                }
                if (!/[a-zA-Z]/.test(s[i - 1]) || !/[a-zA-Z]/.test(s[i + 1])) {
                    return 0;
                }
                st = true;
            }
        }
        return 1;
    };
    return sentence.split(/\s+/).reduce((acc, s) => acc + check(s), 0);
}

2047. Number of Valid Words in a Sentence

Description

Solutions

Solution 1: Simulation

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