You are playing the following Flip Game with your friend: Given a string that contains only these two characters:
+
and -
, you and your friend take turns to flip twoconsecutive "++"
into "--"
. The game ends when a person can no longer make a move and therefore the other person will be the winner.
Write a function to compute all possible states of the string after one valid move.
For example, given
s = "++++"
, after one move, it may become one of the following states:[ "--++", "+--+", "++--" ]
If there is no valid move, return an empty list
Understand the problem:[]
.The problem only asks for flipping "++" into "--", NOT -- to ++. So the solution is to move all consecutive "++" into "--".
Code (Java):
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | public class Solution { public List<String> generatePossibleNextMoves(String s) { List<String> result = new ArrayList<>(); if (s == null || s.length() < 2 ) { return result; } for ( int i = 0 ; i < s.length() - 1 ; i++) { if (s.charAt(i) == '+' && s.charAt(i + 1 ) == '+' ) { String s1 = s.substring( 0 , i); String s2 = "--" ; String s3 = s.substring(i + 2 ); String temp = s1 + s2 + s3; result.add(temp); } } return result; } } |
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