In a string S
of lowercase letters, these letters form consecutive groups of the same character.
For example, a string like S = "abbxxxxzyy"
has the groups "a"
, "bb"
, "xxxx"
, "z"
and "yy"
.
Call a group large if it has 3 or more characters. We would like the starting and ending positions of every large group.
The final answer should be in lexicographic order.
Example 1:
Input: "abbxxxxzzy"
Output: [[3,6]]
Explanation:"xxxx" is the single
large group with starting 3 and ending positions 6.
Example 2:
Input: "abc"
Output: []
Explanation: We have "a","b" and "c" but no large group.
Example 3:
Input: "abcdddeeeeaabbbcd"
Output: [[3,5],[6,9],[12,14]]
Note: 1 <= S.length <= 1000
class Solution(object):
def largeGroupPositions(self, S):
"""
:type S: str
:rtype: List[List[int]]
"""
start=end=-1
count=0
ans=[] for i in range(len(S)):
if count>0:
if S[i]!=S[i-1]:
if count>=3:
end=i-1
ans.append([start,end])
start=i
count=1
else:
start=i
count=1
else:
count+=1
else:
count+=1
start=i
if count>=3:
ans.append([start,len(S)-1])
return ans