Check if a binary string has two consecutive occurrences of one everywhere

Given string str consisting of only the characters ‘a’ and ‘b’, the task is to check whether the string is valid or not. In a valid string, every group of consecutive b must be of length 2 and must appear after 1 or more occurrences of character ‘a’ i.e. “abba” is a valid sub-string but “abbb” and aba are not. Print 1 if the string is valid, else print -1.

Examples:

Input: str = “abbaaabbabba” 
Output: 1

Input: str = “abbaaababb” 
Output: -1 

Approach: Find every occurrence of ‘b’ in the string and check whether it is a part of the sub-string “abb”. If the condition fails for any sub-string, then print -1 else print 1.

Below is the implementation of the above approach: 

C++

// C++ implementation of the approach
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

// Function that returns 1 if str is valid
bool isValidString(string str, int n)
{
    // Index of first appearance of 'b'
    int index = find(str.begin(),
                     str.end(), 'b') -
                     str.begin();

    // If str starts with 'b'
    if (index == 0)
        return false;

    // While 'b' occurs in str
    while (index <= n - 1)
    {
        // If 'b' doesn't appear after an 'a'
        if (str[index - 1] != 'a')
            return false;

        // If 'b' is not succeeded by another 'b'
        if (index + 1 < n && str[index + 1] != 'b')
            return false;

        // If sub-string is of the type "abbb"
        if (index + 2 < n && str[index + 2] == 'b')
            return false;

        // If str ends with a single b
        if (index == n - 1)
            return false;

        index = find(str.begin() + index + 2,
                     str.end(), 'b') - str.begin();
    }
    return true;
}

// Driver code
int main()
{
    string str = "abbaaabbabba";
    int n = str.length();
    isValidString(str, n) ? cout
                << "true" : cout << "false";
    return 0;
}

// This code is contributed by
// sanjeev2552

Java

// Java implementation of the approach
class GFG {

    // Function that returns 1 if str is valid
    private static boolean isValidString(String str, int n)
    {

        // Index of first appearance of 'b'
        int index = str.indexOf("b");

        // If str starts with 'b'
        if (index == 0)
            return false;

        // While 'b' occurs in str
        while (index != -1) {

            // If 'b' doesn't appear after an 'a'
            if (str.charAt(index - 1) != 'a')
                return false;

            // If 'b' is not succeeded by another 'b'
            if (index + 1 < n && str.charAt(index + 1) != 'b')
                return false;

            // If sub-string is of the type "abbb"
            if (index + 2 < n && str.charAt(index + 2) == 'b')
                return false;

            // If str ends with a single b
            if (index == n - 1)
                return false;

            index = str.indexOf("b", index + 2);
        }
        return true;
    }

    // Driver code
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String str = "abbaaabbabba";
        int n = str.length();
        System.out.println(isValidString(str, n));
    }
}

Python 3

# Python 3 implementation of the approach

# Function that returns 1 if str is valid
def isValidString(str, n):

    # Index of first appearance of 'b'
    idx = str.find("b")

    # If str starts with 'b'
    if (idx == 0):
        return False

    # While 'b' occurs in str
    while (idx != -1):

        # If 'b' doesn't appear after an 'a'
        if (str[idx - 1] != 'a'):
            return False

        # If 'b' is not succeeded by another 'b'
        if (idx + 1 < n and str[idx + 1] != 'b'):
            return False

        # If sub-string is of the type "abbb"
        if (idx + 2 < n and str[idx + 2] == 'b'):
            return False

        # If str ends with a single b
        if (idx == n - 1):
            return False

        idx = str.find("b", idx + 2)

    return True

# Driver code
if __name__ == "__main__":

    str = "abbaaabbabba"
    n = len(str)
    print(isValidString(str, n))

# This code is contributed by ita_c

C#

// C# implementation of the approach
using System;

class GFG
{

    // Function that returns 1 if str is valid
    private static bool isValidString(string str, int n)
    {

        // Index of first appearance of 'b'
        int index = str.IndexOf("b");

        // If str starts with 'b'
        if (index == 0)
            return false;

        // While 'b' occurs in str
        while (index != -1)
        {

            // If 'b' doesn't appear after an 'a'
            if (str[index - 1] != 'a')
                return false;

            // If 'b' is not succeeded by another 'b'
            if (index + 1 < n && str[index + 1] != 'b')
                return false;

            // If sub-string is of the type "abbb"
            if (index + 2 < n && str[index + 2] == 'b')
                return false;

            // If str ends with a single b
            if (index == n - 1)
                return false;

            index = str.IndexOf("b", index + 2);
        }
        return true;
    }

    // Driver code
    public static void Main()
    {
        string str = "abbaaabbabba";
        int n = str.Length;
        Console.WriteLine(isValidString(str, n));
    }
}

// This code is contributed by Ryuga

Javascript

<script>
// Javascript implementation of the approach

// Function that returns 1 if str is valid
function isValidString(str,n)
{
        // Index of first appearance of 'b'
        let index = str.indexOf("b");

        // If str starts with 'b'
        if (index == 0)
            return false;

        // While 'b' occurs in str
        while (index != -1) {

            // If 'b' doesn't appear after an 'a'
            if (str[index - 1] != 'a')
                return false;

            // If 'b' is not succeeded by another 'b'
            if (index + 1 < n && str[index + 1] != 'b')
                return false;

            // If sub-string is of the type "abbb"
            if (index + 2 < n && str[index + 2] == 'b')
                return false;

            // If str ends with a single b
            if (index == n - 1)
                return false;

            index = str.indexOf("b", index + 2);
        }
        return true;
}

// Driver code
let str = "abbaaabbabba";
let n = str.length;
document.write(isValidString(str, n));

// This code is contributed by rag2127
</script>

Output:

true