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857. Positions Of Large Groups

String

Problem - Positions Of Large Groups

Easy

In a string s of lowercase letters, these letters form consecutive groups of the same character.

For example, a string like s = "abbxxxxzyy" has the groups "a", "bb", "xxxx", "z", and "yy".

A group is identified by an interval [start, end], where start and end denote the start and end indices (inclusive) of the group. In the above example, "xxxx" has the interval [3,6].

A group is considered large if it has 3 or more characters.

Return the intervals of every large group sorted in increasing order by start index.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "abbxxxxzzy"
Output: [[3,6]]
Explanation: "xxxx" is the only large group with start index 3 and end index 6.

Example 2:

Input: s = "abc"
Output: []
Explanation: We have groups "a", "b", and "c", none of which are large groups.

Example 3:

Input: s = "abcdddeeeeaabbbcd"
Output: [[3,5],[6,9],[12,14]]
Explanation: The large groups are "ddd", "eeee", and "bbb".

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 1000
  • s contains lowercase English letters only.

Solutions

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class Solution:
    def largeGroupPositions(self, s: str) -> List[List[int]]:
        i, n = 0, len(s)
        result = []
        while n > i:
            j = i
            while j < n and s[j] == s[i]:
                j += 1
            if j - i >= 3:
                result.append([i, j - 1])
            i = j
        return result

Submission Stats:

  • Runtime: 3 ms (38.21%)
  • Memory: 18 MB (18.66%)