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LeetCode: 1903-Largest Odd Number in String Solution

Last Updated on 2023-12-07 by Clay

題目

You are given a string num, representing a large integer. Return the largest-valued odd integer (as a string) that is a non-empty substring of num, or an empty string "" if no odd integer exists.

substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.

Example 1:Input: num = “52” Output: “5” Explanation: The only non-empty substrings are “5”, “2”, and “52”. “5” is the only odd number.

Example 2:Input: num = “4206” Output: “” Explanation: There are no odd numbers in “4206”.

Example 3:Input: num = “35427” Output: “35427” Explanation: “35427” is already an odd number.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= num.length <= 105
  • num only consists of digits and does not contain any leading zeros.

Simply put, we need to return the longest sub-string and it would be odd number.


Solution

We can change our view: What is odd number? that is the tail of number is not 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8. So what should we do is very clear, we need to find the first odd number from tail to head, and get the number from head to it.


C++ Sample Code

class Solution {
public:
    string largestOddNumber(string num) {
        // Init
        int tail = 0;
        unordered_map<char, bool> isEven({
            {'0', true},
            {'2', true},
            {'4', true},
            {'6', true},
            {'8', true},
        });

        // Count from the tail
        for (int i=num.size()-1; i>=0; --i) {
            if (!isEven[num[i]]) {
                tail = i + 1;
                break;
            }
        }

        return num.substr(0, tail);
    }
};



Python Sample Code

class Solution:
    def largestOddNumber(self, num: str) -> str:
        # Init
        tail = 0
        evens = {
            '0': True,
            '2': True,
            '4': True,
            '6': True,
            '8': True,
        }

        # Count from tail
        for i in range(len(num)-1, -1, -1):
            if not evens.get(num[i], False):
                tail = i + 1
                break

        return num[:tail]

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