- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Union Find, String, leetcode-1061, O(n), 🔒
Problem
You are given two strings of the same length s1 and s2 and a string baseStr.
We say s1[i] and s2[i] are equivalent characters.
- For example, if
s1 = "abc"ands2 = "cde", then we have'a' == 'c','b' == 'd', and'c' == 'e'.
Equivalent characters follow the usual rules of any equivalence relation:
- Reflexivity:
'a' == 'a'. - Symmetry:
'a' == 'b'implies'b' == 'a'. - Transitivity:
'a' == 'b'and'b' == 'c'implies'a' == 'c'.
For example, given the equivalency information from s1 = "abc" and s2 = "cde", "acd" and "aab" are equivalent strings of baseStr = "eed", and "aab" is the lexicographically smallest equivalent string of baseStr.
Return the lexicographically smallest equivalent string of baseStr by using the equivalency information from s1 and s2.
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Example 1:
Input: s1 = "parker", s2 = "morris", baseStr = "parser" Output: "makkek" Explanation: Based on the equivalency information in s1 and s2, we can group their characters as [m,p], [a,o], [k,r,s], [e,i]. The characters in each group are equivalent and sorted in lexicographical order. So the answer is "makkek".
Example 2:
Input: s1 = "hello", s2 = "world", baseStr = "hold" Output: "hdld" Explanation: Based on the equivalency information in s1 and s2, we can group their characters as [h,w], [d,e,o], [l,r]. So only the second letter 'o' in baseStr is changed to 'd', the answer is "hdld".
Example 3:
Input: s1 = "leetcode", s2 = "programs", baseStr = "sourcecode" Output: "aauaaaaada" Explanation: We group the equivalent characters in s1 and s2 as [a,o,e,r,s,c], [l,p], [g,t] and [d,m], thus all letters in baseStr except 'u' and 'd' are transformed to 'a', the answer is "aauaaaaada".
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Constraints:
1 <= s1.length, s2.length, baseStr <= 1000s1.length == s2.lengths1,s2, andbaseStrconsist of lowercase English letters.