3076. Shortest Uncommon Substring in an Array
Description
You are given an array arr
of size n
consisting of non-empty strings.
Find a string array answer
of size n
such that:
answer[i]
is the shortest substring ofarr[i]
that does not occur as a substring in any other string inarr
. If multiple such substrings exist,answer[i]
should be the lexicographically smallest. And if no such substring exists,answer[i]
should be an empty string.
Return the array answer
.
Example 1:
Input: arr = ["cab","ad","bad","c"] Output: ["ab","","ba",""] Explanation: We have the following: - For the string "cab", the shortest substring that does not occur in any other string is either "ca" or "ab", we choose the lexicographically smaller substring, which is "ab". - For the string "ad", there is no substring that does not occur in any other string. - For the string "bad", the shortest substring that does not occur in any other string is "ba". - For the string "c", there is no substring that does not occur in any other string.
Example 2:
Input: arr = ["abc","bcd","abcd"] Output: ["","","abcd"] Explanation: We have the following: - For the string "abc", there is no substring that does not occur in any other string. - For the string "bcd", there is no substring that does not occur in any other string. - For the string "abcd", the shortest substring that does not occur in any other string is "abcd".
Constraints:
n == arr.length
2 <= n <= 100
1 <= arr[i].length <= 20
arr[i]
consists only of lowercase English letters.
Solutions
Solution 1: Enumeration
Given the small data scale, we can directly enumerate all substrings of each string and then determine whether it is a substring of other strings.
Specifically, we first enumerate each string arr[i]
, then enumerate the length $j$ of each substring from small to large, and then enumerate the starting position $l$ of each substring. We can get the current substring as sub = arr[i][l:l+j]
. Then we determine whether sub
is a substring of other strings. If it is, we skip the current substring; otherwise, we update the answer.
The time complexity is $O(n^2 \times m^4)$, and the space complexity is $O(m)$. Where $n$ is the length of the string array arr
, and $m$ is the maximum length of the string. In this problem, $m \le 20$.
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