LeetCode 1422, Easy. Topics: String, Prefix Sum. View on LeetCode.
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Problem
Given a string s of zeros and ones, return the maximum score after splitting the string into two non-empty substrings (i.e. left substring and right substring).
The score after splitting a string is the number of zeros in the left substring plus the number of ones in the right substring.
Examples
Explanation: All possible ways of splitting s into two non-empty substrings are: left = "0" and right = "11101", score = 1 + 4 = 5; left = "01" and right = "1101", score = 1 + 3 = 4; left = "011" and right = "101", score = 1 + 2 = 3; left = "0111" and right = "01", score = 1 + 1 = 2; left = "01110" and right = "1", score = 2 + 1 = 3.
Explanation: When left = "00" and right = "111", we get the maximum score = 2 + 3 = 5.
Constraints
2 <= s.length <= 500
- The string
s consists of characters '0' and '1' only.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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