- Difficulty: Hard
- Tags: LeetCode, Hard, Greedy, Binary Indexed Tree, Two Pointers, String, leetcode-2193, O(nlogn), O(n), BIT, Fenwick Tree
Problem
You are given a string s
consisting only of lowercase English letters.
In one move, you can select any two adjacent characters of s
and swap them.
Return the minimum number of moves needed to make s
a palindrome.
Note that the input will be generated such that s
can always be converted to a palindrome.
Example 1:
Input: s = "aabb" Output: 2 Explanation: We can obtain two palindromes from s, "abba" and "baab". - We can obtain "abba" from s in 2 moves: "aabb" -> "abab" -> "abba". - We can obtain "baab" from s in 2 moves: "aabb" -> "abab" -> "baab". Thus, the minimum number of moves needed to make s a palindrome is 2.
Example 2:
Input: s = "letelt" Output: 2 Explanation: One of the palindromes we can obtain from s in 2 moves is "lettel". One of the ways we can obtain it is "letelt" -> "letetl" -> "lettel". Other palindromes such as "tleelt" can also be obtained in 2 moves. It can be shown that it is not possible to obtain a palindrome in less than 2 moves.
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 2000
s
consists only of lowercase English letters.s
can be converted to a palindrome using a finite number of moves.