A string s
is called good if there are no two different characters in s
that have the same frequency.
Given a string s
, return the minimum number of characters you need to delete to make s
good.
The frequency of a character in a string is the number of times it appears in the string. For example, in the string "aab"
, the frequency of 'a'
is 2
, while the frequency of 'b'
is 1
.
Example 1:
Input: s = "aab"
Output: 0
Explanation: s
is already good.
Example 2:
Input: s = "aaabbbcc" Output: 2 Explanation: You can delete two 'b's resulting in the good string "aaabcc". Another way it to delete one 'b' and one 'c' resulting in the good string "aaabbc".
Example 3:
Input: s = "ceabaacb" Output: 2 Explanation: You can delete both 'c's resulting in the good string "eabaab". Note that we only care about characters that are still in the string at the end (i.e. frequency of 0 is ignored).
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 105
s
contains only lowercase English letters.
class Solution:
def minDeletions(self, s: str) -> int:
counter = Counter(s)
vals = [v for v in counter.values()]
vals.sort(reverse=True)
ans = 0
for i in range(1, len(vals)):
while vals[i] >= vals[i - 1] and vals[i] > 0:
vals[i] -= 1
ans += 1
return ans
class Solution {
public int minDeletions(String s) {
int[] counter = new int[26];
for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
++counter[c - 'a'];
}
Arrays.sort(counter);
int ans = 0;
for (int i = 24; i >= 0; --i) {
while (counter[i] >= counter[i + 1] && counter[i] > 0) {
--counter[i];
++ans;
}
}
return ans;
}
}
function minDeletions(s: string): number {
let map = {};
for (let c of s) {
map[c] = (map[c] || 0) + 1;
}
let ans = 0;
let vals: number[] = Object.values(map);
vals.sort((a, b) => a - b);
for (let i = 1; i < vals.length; ++i) {
while (vals[i] > 0 && i != vals.indexOf(vals[i])) {
--vals[i];
++ans;
}
}
return ans;
}