Tuesday, July 15, 2014

[Leetcode] ZigZag Conversion

Problem

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   N
A P L S I I G
Y   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".

Algorithm

Using an array of StringBuilders to build each row. For odd column, sequentially append each letter from s to each row's string builder. For even column, do this reversely, and omit the last and first row. 

Code



No comments:

Post a Comment