- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Array, String, Prefix Sum, leetcode-2559, O(n + q), O(n)
Problem
You are given a 0-indexed array of strings words
and a 2D array of integers queries
.
Each query queries[i] = [li, ri]
asks us to find the number of strings present in the range li
to ri
(both inclusive) of words
that start and end with a vowel.
Return an array ans
of size queries.length
, where ans[i]
is the answer to the i
th query.
Note that the vowel letters are 'a'
, 'e'
, 'i'
, 'o'
, and 'u'
.
Example 1:
Input: words = ["aba","bcb","ece","aa","e"], queries = [[0,2],[1,4],[1,1]] Output: [2,3,0] Explanation: The strings starting and ending with a vowel are "aba", "ece", "aa" and "e". The answer to the query [0,2] is 2 (strings "aba" and "ece"). to query [1,4] is 3 (strings "ece", "aa", "e"). to query [1,1] is 0. We return [2,3,0].
Example 2:
Input: words = ["a","e","i"], queries = [[0,2],[0,1],[2,2]] Output: [3,2,1] Explanation: Every string satisfies the conditions, so we return [3,2,1].
Constraints:
1 <= words.length <= 105
1 <= words[i].length <= 40
words[i]
consists only of lowercase English letters.sum(words[i].length) <= 3 * 105
1 <= queries.length <= 105
0 <= li <= ri < words.length