LeetCode 551, Easy. Topics: String. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 20 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
You are given a string s representing an attendance record for a student where each character signifies whether the student was absent, late, or present on that day.
The record only contains the following three characters:
'A': Absent.
'L': Late.
'P': Present.
The student is eligible for an attendance award if they meet both of the following criteria:
- The student was absent (
'A') for strictly fewer than 2 days total.
- The student was never late (
'L') for 3 or more consecutive days.
Return true if the student is eligible for an attendance award, or false otherwise.
Examples
Constraints
- 1 <= s.length <= 1000
- s[i] is either ‘A’, ‘L’, or ‘P’.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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