- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Greedy, String, Prefix Sum, leetcode-2207, O(n), O(1), Counting
Problem
You are given a 0-indexed string text
and another 0-indexed string pattern
of length 2
, both of which consist of only lowercase English letters.
You can add either pattern[0]
or pattern[1]
anywhere in text
exactly once. Note that the character can be added even at the beginning or at the end of text
.
Return the maximum number of times pattern
can occur as a subsequence of the modified text
.
A subsequence is a string that can be derived from another string by deleting some or no characters without changing the order of the remaining characters.
Example 1:
Input: text = "abdcdbc", pattern = "ac" Output: 4 Explanation: If we add pattern[0] = 'a' in between text[1] and text[2], we get "abadcdbc". Now, the number of times "ac" occurs as a subsequence is 4. Some other strings which have 4 subsequences "ac" after adding a character to text are "aabdcdbc" and "abdacdbc". However, strings such as "abdcadbc", "abdccdbc", and "abdcdbcc", although obtainable, have only 3 subsequences "ac" and are thus suboptimal. It can be shown that it is not possible to get more than 4 subsequences "ac" by adding only one character.
Example 2:
Input: text = "aabb", pattern = "ab" Output: 6 Explanation: Some of the strings which can be obtained from text and have 6 subsequences "ab" are "aaabb", "aaabb", and "aabbb".
Constraints:
1 <= text.length <= 105
pattern.length == 2
text
andpattern
consist only of lowercase English letters.