- Difficulty: Hard
- Tags: LeetCode, Hard, Greedy, Hash Table, String, Counting, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue), leetcode-358, Binary Heap, O(n), O(c), 🔒, Heap
Problem
Given a string s
and an integer k
, rearrange s
such that the same characters are at least distance k
from each other. If it is not possible to rearrange the string, return an empty string ""
.
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Example 1:
Input: s = "aabbcc", k = 3 Output: "abcabc" Explanation: The same letters are at least a distance of 3 from each other.
Example 2:
Input: s = "aaabc", k = 3 Output: "" Explanation: It is not possible to rearrange the string.
Example 3:
Input: s = "aaadbbcc", k = 2 Output: "abacabcd" Explanation: The same letters are at least a distance of 2 from each other.
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Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 3 * 105
s
consists of only lowercase English letters.0 <= k <= s.length