- Difficulty: Hard
- Tags: LeetCode, Hard, Math, String, Combinatorics, leetcode-1830, O(n), O(maxn), Modular Inverse
Problem
You are given a string s
(0-indexed). You are asked to perform the following operation on s
until you get a sorted string:
- Find the largest index
i
such that1 <= i < s.length
ands[i] < s[i - 1]
. - Find the largest index
j
such thati <= j < s.length
ands[k] < s[i - 1]
for all the possible values ofk
in the range[i, j]
inclusive. - Swap the two characters at indices
i - 1
andj
. - Reverse the suffix starting at index
i
.
Return the number of operations needed to make the string sorted. Since the answer can be too large, return it modulo 109 + 7
.
Example 1:
Input: s = "cba" Output: 5 Explanation: The simulation goes as follows: Operation 1: i=2, j=2. Swap s[1] and s[2] to get s="cab", then reverse the suffix starting at 2. Now, s="cab". Operation 2: i=1, j=2. Swap s[0] and s[2] to get s="bac", then reverse the suffix starting at 1. Now, s="bca". Operation 3: i=2, j=2. Swap s[1] and s[2] to get s="bac", then reverse the suffix starting at 2. Now, s="bac". Operation 4: i=1, j=1. Swap s[0] and s[1] to get s="abc", then reverse the suffix starting at 1. Now, s="acb". Operation 5: i=2, j=2. Swap s[1] and s[2] to get s="abc", then reverse the suffix starting at 2. Now, s="abc".
Example 2:
Input: s = "aabaa" Output: 2 Explanation: The simulation goes as follows: Operation 1: i=3, j=4. Swap s[2] and s[4] to get s="aaaab", then reverse the substring starting at 3. Now, s="aaaba". Operation 2: i=4, j=4. Swap s[3] and s[4] to get s="aaaab", then reverse the substring starting at 4. Now, s="aaaab".
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 3000
s
consists only of lowercase English letters.