LeetCode 1456, Medium. Topics: String, Sliding Window. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 16 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
Given a string s and an integer k, return the maximum number of vowel letters in any substring of s with length k.
Vowel letters in English are 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', and 'u'.
Examples
Explanation: The substring “iii” contains 3 vowel letters.
Explanation: Any substring of length 2 contains 2 vowels.
Explanation: “lee”, “eet” and “ode” contain 2 vowels.
Constraints
- 1 <= s.length <= 10^5
- s consists of lowercase English letters.
- 1 <= k <= s.length
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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