2223. Sum of Scores of Built Strings

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Description

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You are building a string s of length n one character at a time, prepending each new character to the front of the string. The strings are labeled from 1 to n, where the string with length i is labeled si.

• For example, for s = "abaca", s1 == "a", s2 == "ca", s3 == "aca", etc.

The score of si is the length of the longest common prefix between si and sn (Note that s == sn).

Given the final string s, return the sum of the score of every si.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "babab"
Output: 9
Explanation:
For s1 == "b", the longest common prefix is "b" which has a score of 1.
For s2 == "ab", there is no common prefix so the score is 0.
For s3 == "bab", the longest common prefix is "bab" which has a score of 3.
For s4 == "abab", there is no common prefix so the score is 0.
For s5 == "babab", the longest common prefix is "babab" which has a score of 5.
The sum of the scores is 1 + 0 + 3 + 0 + 5 = 9, so we return 9.

Example 2:

Input: s = "azbazbzaz"
Output: 14
Explanation: 
For s2 == "az", the longest common prefix is "az" which has a score of 2.
For s6 == "azbzaz", the longest common prefix is "azb" which has a score of 3.
For s9 == "azbazbzaz", the longest common prefix is "azbazbzaz" which has a score of 9.
For all other si, the score is 0.
The sum of the scores is 2 + 3 + 9 = 14, so we return 14.

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 105
• s consists of lowercase English letters.

Solution

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C++

vector<int> z_function(string s) {
    int n = s.size();
    vector<int> z(n);
    int l = 0, r = 0;
    for(int i = 1; i < n; i++) {
        if(i < r) {
            z[i] = min(r - i, z[i - l]);
        }
        while(i + z[i] < n && s[z[i]] == s[i + z[i]]) {
            z[i]++;
        }
        if(i + z[i] > r) {
            l = i;
            r = i + z[i];
        }
    }
    return z;
}
 
class Solution {
public:
    long long sumScores(string s) {
        vector<int> Z = z_function(s);
        
        return accumulate(Z.begin(), Z.end(), 0LL) + s.size();
    }
};