Program to count minimum deletions needed to make character frequencies unique in Python

Suppose we have a string s, s is said to be good if there are no two different characters in s that have the same frequency. We have to find the minimum number of characters we need to delete to make s a good string.

So, if the input is like s = "ssstttuu", then the output will be 2 because if we delete one 't', then there will be three 's', two 't' and two 'u', then again delete one, either 't' or 'u', to make them good.

To solve this, we will follow these steps −

• val := a new map containing frequency of each character of s
• res := 0
• numlist := sort the list of all frequency values from val
• for i in range 0 to size of numlist -2, do
  • if numlist[i] is non zero and numlist[i] is same as numlist[i+1], then
    • numlist[i] := numlist[i] - 1
    • res := res + 1
    • k := i-1
    • m := i
    • while numlist[m] is non-zero and numlist[m] is same as numlist[k], do
      • numlist[k] := numlist[k] - 1
      • k := k - 1
      • m := m - 1
      • res := res + 1
• return res

Example

Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding −

from collections import Counter
def solve(s):
   val = Counter(s)
   res = 0
   numlist = sorted([i for i in val.values()])
   for i in range(len(numlist)-1):
      if numlist[i] and numlist[i] == numlist[i+1]:
         numlist[i] -= 1
         res += 1
         k = i-1
         m = i
         while numlist[m] and numlist[m] == numlist[k]:
            numlist[k] -= 1
            k -= 1
            m -= 1
            res += 1

   return res

s = "ssstttuu"
print(solve(s))

Input

"ssstttuu"

Output

2

Arnab Chakraborty

Published on 05-Oct-2021 12:26:07

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