2955. Number of Same-End Substrings 🔒

Description

You are given a 0-indexed string s, and a 2D array of integers queries, where queries[i] = [li, ri] indicates a substring of s starting from the index li and ending at the index ri (both inclusive), i.e. s[li..ri].

Return an array ans where ans[i] is the number of same-end substrings of queries[i].

A 0-indexed string t of length n is called same-end if it has the same character at both of its ends, i.e., t[0] == t[n - 1].

A substring is a contiguous non-empty sequence of characters within a string.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "abcaab", queries = [[0,0],[1,4],[2,5],[0,5]]
Output: [1,5,5,10]
Explanation: Here is the same-end substrings of each query:
1st query: s[0..0] is "a" which has 1 same-end substring: "a".
2nd query: s[1..4] is "bcaa" which has 5 same-end substrings: "bcaa", "bcaa", "bcaa", "bcaa", "bcaa".
3rd query: s[2..5] is "caab" which has 5 same-end substrings: "caab", "caab", "caab", "caab", "caab".
4th query: s[0..5] is "abcaab" which has 10 same-end substrings: "abcaab", "abcaab", "abcaab", "abcaab", "abcaab", "abcaab", "abcaab", "abcaab", "abcaab", "abcaab".

Example 2:

Input: s = "abcd", queries = [[0,3]]
Output: [4]
Explanation: The only query is s[0..3] which is "abcd". It has 4 same-end substrings: "abcd", "abcd", "abcd", "abcd".

 

Constraints:

• 2 <= s.length <= 3 * 104
• s consists only of lowercase English letters.
• 1 <= queries.length <= 3 * 104
• queries[i] = [li, ri]
• 0 <= li <= ri < s.length

Solutions

Solution 1: Prefix Sum + Enumeration

We can preprocess the prefix sum for each letter and record it in the array $cnt$, where $cnt[i][j]$ represents the number of times the $i$-th letter appears in the first $j$ characters. In this way, for each interval $[l, r]$, we can enumerate each letter $c$ in the interval, quickly calculate the number of times $c$ appears in the interval $x$ using the prefix sum array. We can arbitrarily choose two of them to form a tail-equal substring, the number of substrings is $C_x^2=\frac{x(x-1)}{2}$, plus the situation where each letter in the interval can form a tail-equal substring alone, there are $r - l + 1$ letters in total. Therefore, for each query $[l, r]$, the number of tail-equal substrings that meet the conditions is $r - l + 1 + \sum_{c \in \Sigma} \frac{x_c(x_c-1)}{2}$, where $x_c$ represents the number of times the letter $c$ appears in the interval $[l, r]$.

The time complexity is $O((n + m) \times |\Sigma|)$, and the space complexity is $O(n \times |\Sigma|)$. Here, $n$ and $m$ are the lengths of the string $s$ and the number of queries, respectively, and $\Sigma$ represents the set of letters appearing in the string $s$, in this problem $|\Sigma|=26$.

Python3JavaC++GoTypeScriptRust

class Solution:
    def sameEndSubstringCount(self, s: str, queries: List[List[int]]) -> List[int]:
        n = len(s)
        cs = set(s)
        cnt = {c: [0] * (n + 1) for c in cs}
        for i, a in enumerate(s, 1):
            for c in cs:
                cnt[c][i] = cnt[c][i - 1]
            cnt[a][i] += 1
        ans = []
        for l, r in queries:
            t = r - l + 1
            for c in cs:
                x = cnt[c][r + 1] - cnt[c][l]
                t += x * (x - 1) // 2
            ans.append(t)
        return ans

class Solution {
    public int[] sameEndSubstringCount(String s, int[][] queries) {
        int n = s.length();
        int[][] cnt = new int[26][n + 1];
        for (int j = 1; j <= n; ++j) {
            for (int i = 0; i < 26; ++i) {
                cnt[i][j] = cnt[i][j - 1];
            }
            cnt[s.charAt(j - 1) - 'a'][j]++;
        }
        int m = queries.length;
        int[] ans = new int[m];
        for (int k = 0; k < m; ++k) {
            int l = queries[k][0], r = queries[k][1];
            ans[k] = r - l + 1;
            for (int i = 0; i < 26; ++i) {
                int x = cnt[i][r + 1] - cnt[i][l];
                ans[k] += x * (x - 1) / 2;
            }
        }
        return ans;
    }
}

class Solution {
public:
    vector<int> sameEndSubstringCount(string s, vector<vector<int>>& queries) {
        int n = s.size();
        int cnt[26][n + 1];
        memset(cnt, 0, sizeof(cnt));
        for (int j = 1; j <= n; ++j) {
            for (int i = 0; i < 26; ++i) {
                cnt[i][j] = cnt[i][j - 1];
            }
            cnt[s[j - 1] - 'a'][j]++;
        }
        vector<int> ans;
        for (auto& q : queries) {
            int l = q[0], r = q[1];
            ans.push_back(r - l + 1);
            for (int i = 0; i < 26; ++i) {
                int x = cnt[i][r + 1] - cnt[i][l];
                ans.back() += x * (x - 1) / 2;
            }
        }
        return ans;
    }
};

func sameEndSubstringCount(s string, queries [][]int) []int {
    n := len(s)
    cnt := make([][]int, 26)
    for i := 0; i < 26; i++ {
        cnt[i] = make([]int, n+1)
    }

    for j := 1; j <= n; j++ {
        for i := 0; i < 26; i++ {
            cnt[i][j] = cnt[i][j-1]
        }
        cnt[s[j-1]-'a'][j]++
    }

    var ans []int
    for _, q := range queries {
        l, r := q[0], q[1]
        ans = append(ans, r-l+1)
        for i := 0; i < 26; i++ {
            x := cnt[i][r+1] - cnt[i][l]
            ans[len(ans)-1] += x * (x - 1) / 2
        }
    }

    return ans
}

function sameEndSubstringCount(s: string, queries: number[][]): number[] {
    const n: number = s.length;
    const cnt: number[][] = Array.from({ length: 26 }, () => Array(n + 1).fill(0));
    for (let j = 1; j <= n; j++) {
        for (let i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
            cnt[i][j] = cnt[i][j - 1];
        }
        cnt[s.charCodeAt(j - 1) - 'a'.charCodeAt(0)][j]++;
    }
    const ans: number[] = [];
    for (const [l, r] of queries) {
        ans.push(r - l + 1);
        for (let i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
            const x: number = cnt[i][r + 1] - cnt[i][l];
            ans[ans.length - 1] += (x * (x - 1)) / 2;
        }
    }
    return ans;
}

impl Solution {
    pub fn same_end_substring_count(s: String, queries: Vec<Vec<i32>>) -> Vec<i32> {
        let n = s.len();
        let mut cnt: Vec<Vec<i32>> = vec![vec![0; n + 1]; 26];
        for j in 1..=n {
            for i in 0..26 {
                cnt[i][j] = cnt[i][j - 1];
            }
            cnt[(s.as_bytes()[j - 1] as usize) - (b'a' as usize)][j] += 1;
        }
        let mut ans: Vec<i32> = Vec::new();
        for q in queries.iter() {
            let l = q[0] as usize;
            let r = q[1] as usize;
            let mut t = (r - l + 1) as i32;
            for i in 0..26 {
                let x = cnt[i][r + 1] - cnt[i][l];
                t += (x * (x - 1)) / 2;
            }
            ans.push(t);
        }
        ans
    }
}

Comments