Let us define a transformation that, given a string S of letters 'a' and/or 'b', replaces some consecutive sequence "abb" in S by "baa".
For example, after applying such a transformation to the string "abbabb", both strings "baaabb" and "abbbaa" can be obtained.
Write a function:
class Solution { public String solution(String S); }
that, given a string S of length N, returns the alphabetically largest string that can be obtained by performing the above operation any number of times.
Examples:
1. Given S = "ababb", your function should return "baaaa".
"baaaa" is alphabetically the largest possible outcome and may be obtained from "ababb" by using two transformations:
"ababb" → "abbaa" → "baaaa"
2. Given S = "abbbabb", your function should return "babaaaa".
"babaaaa" may be obtained from "abbbabb" by using three transformations:
"abbbabb" → "abbbbaa" → "baabbaa" → "babaaaa"
3. Given S = "aaabab", your function should return "aaabab".
No operation can be performed on S since it contains no "abb" fragment.
Write an efficient algorithm for the following assumptions:
- N is an integer within the range [1..100,000];
- string S is made only of the characters 'a' and/or 'b'.
Solution.java:7: error: reached end of file while parsing } ^ 1 error
The following issues have been detected: timeout errors.
Simple big test. N = 100,000. Score x 3.
Killed. Hard limit reached: 6.000 sec.
Random big string. N = 100,000.
running time: 0.432 sec., time limit: 0.288 sec.