LeetCode 2375, Medium. Topics: String, Backtracking, Stack, Greedy. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 18 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
You are given a 0-indexed string pattern of length n consisting of the characters 'I' meaning increasing and 'D' meaning decreasing.
A 0-indexed string num of length n + 1 is created using the following conditions:
num consists of the digits '1' to '9', where each digit is used at most once.
- If
pattern[i] == 'I', then num[i] < num[i + 1].
- If
pattern[i] == 'D', then num[i] > num[i + 1].
Return the lexicographically smallest possible string num that meets the conditions.
Examples
Constraints
- 1 <= pattern.length <= 8
- pattern consists of only the letters ‘I’ and ‘D’.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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