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Print a closest string that does not contain adjacent duplicates in C++
In this problem, we are given a string. Our task is to print a string that is closest to the current string and does not contain any adjacent duplicate characters.
Let’s take an example to understand the problem
Input: string = “good” Output: goad
In this example, we found that the elements at index 1 and 2 are the same, so we change the elements at index 2.
To solve this problem, we will traverse the string and check if any two adjacent elements have are same. If yes, then change the second element (if i and i+1 elements are the same, change i+1 element). Solving this will use the greedy algorithm and for each adjacent pair of similar elements, we will make one change. One thing we have to keep in mind is checking all nearby elements while changing i.e. if we are changing ith element than after change i+1 and i index element should be different.
Example
Program to show the implementation of our solution,
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
using namespace std;
void printStringWithNoDuplicates(string str){
int len = str.length();
for (int i = 1; i < len; i++){
if (str[i] == str[i - 1]){
str[i] = 'a';
while (str[i] == str[i - 1] || (i + 1 < len && str[i] == str[i + 1])) str[i]++;
i++;
}
}
cout<<str;
}
int main(){
string str = "good";
cout<<"The orignal string is : "<<str<<endl;
cout<<"String without adjecent duplicate characters is : ";
printStringWithNoDuplicates(str);
return 0;
}Output
The orignal string is : good String without adjecent duplicate characters is : goad
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