The string "PAYPALISHIRING"
is written in a zigzag pattern on a given number of rows like this: (you may want to display this pattern in a fixed font for better legibility)
P A H NA P L S I I GY I R
And then read line by line: "PAHNAPLSIIGYIR"
Write the code that will take a string and make this conversion given a number of rows:
string convert(string text, int nRows);
convert("PAYPALISHIRING", 3)
should return "PAHNAPLSIIGYIR"
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Ref:http://blog.unieagle.net/2012/11/08/leetcode%E9%A2%98%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%9Azigzag-conversion/
public class Solution { public String convert(String s, int nRows) { if (s == null || s.length() == 0 || nRows <= 1) return s; StringBuilder ret = new StringBuilder(); int zigsize = 2*nRows -2; for(int i = 0; i= s.length()) // index 从0开始 break; ret.append(s.charAt(base)); if(i>0 && i < nRows-1){ int ti = base+zigsize -2*i; if(ti < s.length()) ret.append(s.charAt(ti)); } } } return ret.toString(); }}
直观的算法,写一下不同行数下的例子就能找到规律了。
nRows =20246...1357
nRows =3048...135792610
nRows =40612...157112481039
先计算一下每一个zig包含的字符个数,实际上是zigSize = nRows + nRows – 2
然后一行一行的加s中的特定元素就行。第一行和最后一行都只需要加一个字符,每一个zig,而且在s中的index间隔是zigSize。中间每一行需要添加两个字符到结果中去。第一个字符同上;第二个字符和前面添加这个字符在s上的inde相差正好是zigSize – 2*ir。ir是行index。