Given an input string and a pattern, check if characters in the input string follows the same order as determined by characters present in the pattern. Assume there won’t be any duplicate characters in the pattern.
Examples:
Input: string = "engineers rock", pattern = "er"; Output: true All 'e' in the input string are before all 'r'. Input: string = "engineers rock", pattern = "egr"; Output: false There are two 'e' after 'g' in the input string. Input: string = "engineers rock", pattern = "gsr"; Output: false There are one 'r' before 's' in the input string.
We have discussed two approaches to solve this problem.
Check if string follows order of characters defined by a pattern or not | Set 1
Check if string follows order of characters defined by a pattern or not | Set 2
In this approach we first assign a label (or order) to characters of pattern. The labels are assigned in increasing order.
For example, the pattern “gsr” is labeled as following
"g" => 1 "s" => 2 "r" => 3
It means ‘g’ will come first, then ‘s’, then ‘r’
After assigning labels to pattern characters, we iterate through string characters. While traversing, we keep track of label (or order) of last visited character. If label of current character is less than previous character, we return false. Otherwise we update last label. If all characters follow order, we return true.
Below is the implementation
// C++ program to find if a string follows order // defined by a given pattern. #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std;
const int CHAR_SIZE = 256;
// Returns true if characters of str follow // order defined by a given ptr. bool checkPattern(string str, string pat)
{ // Initialize all orders as -1
vector< int > label(CHAR_SIZE, -1);
// Assign an order to pattern characters
// according to their appearance in pattern
int order = 1;
for ( int i = 0; i < pat.length() ; i++)
{
// give the pattern characters order
label[pat[i]] = order;
// increment the order
order++;
}
// Now one by check if string characters
// follow above order
int last_order = -1;
for ( int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++)
{
if (label[str[i]] != -1)
{
// If order of this character is less
// than order of previous, return false.
if (label[str[i]] < last_order)
return false ;
// Update last_order for next iteration
last_order = label[str[i]];
}
}
// return that str followed pat
return true ;
} // Driver code int main()
{ string str = "engineers rock" ;
string pattern = "gsr" ;
cout << boolalpha << checkPattern(str, pattern);
return 0;
} |
// Java program to find if a string follows order // defined by a given pattern. class GFG
{ static int CHAR_SIZE = 256 ;
// Returns true if characters of str follow
// order defined by a given ptr.
static boolean checkPattern(String str,
String pat)
{
int [] label = new int [CHAR_SIZE];
// Initialize all orders as -1
for ( int i = 0 ; i < CHAR_SIZE; i++)
label[i] = - 1 ;
// Assign an order to pattern characters
// according to their appearance in pattern
int order = 1 ;
for ( int i = 0 ; i < pat.length(); i++)
{
// give the pattern characters order
label[pat.charAt(i)] = order;
// increment the order
order++;
}
// Now one by check if string characters
// follow above order
int last_order = - 1 ;
for ( int i = 0 ; i < str.length(); i++)
{
if (label[str.charAt(i)] != - 1 )
{
// If order of this character is less
// than order of previous, return false.
if (label[str.charAt(i)] < last_order)
return false ;
// Update last_order for next iteration
last_order = label[str.charAt(i)];
}
}
// return that str followed pat
return true ;
}
// Driver code
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String str = "engineers rock" ;
String pattern = "gsr" ;
System.out.println(checkPattern(str, pattern));
}
} // This code is contributed by // sanjeev2552 |
# Python3 program to find if a string follows # order defined by a given pattern CHAR_SIZE = 256
# Returns true if characters of str follow # order defined by a given ptr. def checkPattern( Str , pat):
# Initialize all orders as -1
label = [ - 1 ] * CHAR_SIZE
# Assign an order to pattern characters
# according to their appearance in pattern
order = 1
for i in range ( len (pat)):
# Give the pattern characters order
label[ ord (pat[i])] = order
# Increment the order
order + = 1
# Now one by one check if string
# characters follow above order
last_order = - 1
for i in range ( len ( Str )):
if (label[ ord ( Str [i])] ! = - 1 ):
# If order of this character is less
# than order of previous, return false
if (label[ ord ( Str [i])] < last_order):
return False
# Update last_order for next iteration
last_order = label[ ord ( Str [i])]
# return that str followed pat
return True
# Driver Code if __name__ = = '__main__' :
Str = "engineers rock"
pattern = "gsr"
print (checkPattern( Str , pattern))
# This code is contributed by himanshu77 |
// C# program to find if a string follows order // defined by a given pattern. using System;
class GFG
{ static int CHAR_SIZE = 256;
// Returns true if characters of str follow
// order defined by a given ptr.
static bool checkPattern(String str,
String pat)
{
int [] label = new int [CHAR_SIZE];
// Initialize all orders as -1
for ( int i = 0; i < CHAR_SIZE; i++)
label[i] = -1;
// Assign an order to pattern characters
// according to their appearance in pattern
int order = 1;
for ( int i = 0; i < pat.Length; i++)
{
// give the pattern characters order
label[pat[i]] = order;
// increment the order
order++;
}
// Now one by check if string characters
// follow above order
int last_order = -1;
for ( int i = 0; i < str.Length; i++)
{
if (label[str[i]] != -1)
{
// If order of this character is less
// than order of previous, return false.
if (label[str[i]] < last_order)
return false ;
// Update last_order for next iteration
last_order = label[str[i]];
}
}
// return that str followed pat
return true ;
}
// Driver code
public static void Main(String[] args)
{
String str = "engineers rock" ;
String pattern = "gsr" ;
Console.WriteLine(checkPattern(str, pattern));
}
} // This code is contributed by 29AjayKumar |
<script> // Javascript program to find if a string follows order // defined by a given pattern. let CHAR_SIZE = 256; // Returns true if characters of str follow
// order defined by a given ptr.
function checkPattern(str,pat)
{ let label = new Array(CHAR_SIZE);
// Initialize all orders as -1
for (let i = 0; i < CHAR_SIZE; i++)
label[i] = -1;
// Assign an order to pattern characters
// according to their appearance in pattern
let order = 1;
for (let i = 0; i < pat.length; i++)
{
// give the pattern characters order
label[pat[i].charCodeAt(0)] = order;
// increment the order
order++;
}
// Now one by check if string characters
// follow above order
let last_order = -1;
for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i++)
{
if (label[str[i].charCodeAt(0)] != -1)
{
// If order of this character is less
// than order of previous, return false.
if (label[str[i].charCodeAt(0)] < last_order)
return false ;
// Update last_order for next iteration
last_order = label[str[i].charCodeAt(0)];
}
}
// return that str followed pat
return true ;
} // Driver code let str = "engineers rock" ;
let pattern = "gsr" ;
document.write(checkPattern(str, pattern)); // This code is contributed by rag2127 </script> |
false
Time Complexity of this program is O(n) with constant extra space (the array label is of constant size, 256).
Auxiliary Space: O(256).