Find the count of sub-strings whose characters can be rearranged to form the given word

Difficulty Level : Easy
Last Updated : 28 May, 2021

Given a string str, the task is to find the count of all the sub-strings of length four whose characters can be rearranged to form the word “clap”.
Examples:

Input: str = “clapc”
Output: 2
“clap” and “lapc” are the required sub-strings
Input: str = “abcd”
Output: 0

Approach: For every sub-string of length four, count the occurrences of the characters from the word “clap”. If every character has the occurrence exactly one in the sub-string then increment the count. Print the count in the end.
Below is the implementation of the above approach:

C++

// CPP implementation of the approach
#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
 
// Function to return the count of
// required occurrence
int countOcc(string s)
{
 
    // To store the count of occurrences
    int cnt = 0;
 
    // Check first four characters from ith position
    for (int i = 0; i < s.length() - 3; i++)
    {
 
        // Variables for counting the required characters
        int c = 0, l = 0, a = 0, p = 0;
 
        // Check the four contiguous characters which
        // can be reordered to form 'clap'
        for (int j = i; j < i + 4; j++)
        {
            switch (s[j])
            {
                case 'c':
                    c++;
                    break;
                case 'l':
                    l++;
                    break;
                case 'a':
                    a++;
                    break;
                case 'p':
                    p++;
                    break;
            }
        }
 
        // If all four contiguous characters are present
        // then increment cnt variable
        if (c == 1 && l == 1 && a == 1 && p == 1)
            cnt++;
    }
 
    return cnt;
}
 
// Driver code
int main()
{
    string s = "clapc";
    transform(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(), ::tolower);
    cout << (countOcc(s));
}
 
// This code is contributed by
// Surendra_Gangwar

Java

// Java implementation of the approach
class GFG {
 
    // Function to return the count of
    // required occurrence
    static int countOcc(String s)
    {
 
        // To store the count of occurrences
        int cnt = 0;
 
        // Check first four characters from ith position
        for (int i = 0; i < s.length() - 3; i++) {
 
            // Variables for counting the required characters
            int c = 0, l = 0, a = 0, p = 0;
 
            // Check the four contiguous characters which
            // can be reordered to form 'clap'
            for (int j = i; j < i + 4; j++) {
                switch (s.charAt(j)) {
                case 'c':
                    c++;
                    break;
                case 'l':
                    l++;
                    break;
                case 'a':
                    a++;
                    break;
                case 'p':
                    p++;
                    break;
                }
            }
 
            // If all four contiguous characters are present
            // then increment cnt variable
            if (c == 1 && l == 1 && a == 1 && p == 1)
                cnt++;
        }
 
        return cnt;
    }
 
    // Driver code
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        String s = "clapc";
        System.out.print(countOcc(s.toLowerCase()));
    }
}

Python3

# Python3 implementation of the approach
 
# Function to return the count of
# required occurrence
def countOcc(s):
 
    # To store the count of occurrences
    cnt = 0
 
    # Check first four characters from ith position
    for i in range(0, len(s) - 3):
 
        # Variables for counting the required characters
        c, l, a, p = 0, 0, 0, 0
 
        # Check the four contiguous characters
        # which can be reordered to form 'clap'
        for j in range(i, i + 4):
             
            if s[j] == 'c':
                c += 1
         
            elif s[j] == 'l':
                l += 1
                 
            elif s[j] == 'a':
                a += 1
                 
            elif s[j] == 'p':
                p += 1
 
        # If all four contiguous characters are
        # present then increment cnt variable
        if c == 1 and l == 1 and a == 1 and p == 1:
            cnt += 1
         
    return cnt
     
# Driver code
if __name__ == "__main__":
     
    s = "clapc"
    print(countOcc(s.lower()))
     
# This code is contributed by Rituraj Jain

C#

// C# implementation of the approach
using System;
 
class GFG
{
 
// Function to return the count of
// required occurrence
static int countOcc(string s)
{
 
    // To store the count of occurrences
    int cnt = 0;
 
    // Check first four characters
    // from ith position
    for (int i = 0; i < s.Length - 3; i++)
    {
 
        // Variables for counting the
        // required characters
        int c = 0, l = 0, a = 0, p = 0;
 
        // Check the four contiguous characters
        // which can be reordered to form 'clap'
        for (int j = i; j < i + 4; j++)
        {
            switch (s[j])
            {
                case 'c':
                    c++;
                    break;
                case 'l':
                    l++;
                    break;
                case 'a':
                    a++;
                    break;
                case 'p':
                    p++;
                    break;
            }
        }
 
        // If all four contiguous characters are
        // present then increment cnt variable
        if (c == 1 && l == 1 && a == 1 && p == 1)
            cnt++;
    }
 
    return cnt;
}
 
// Driver code
public static void Main()
{
    string s = "clapc";
    Console.Write(countOcc(s.ToLower()));
}
}
 
// This code is contributed by Akanksha Rai

PHP

<?php
// PHP implementation of the approach
 
// Function to return the count of
// required occurrence
function countOcc($s)
{
 
    // To store the count of occurrences
    $cnt = 0;
 
    // Check first four characters
    // from ith position
    for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($s) - 3; $i++)
    {
 
        // Variables for counting the
        // required characters
        $c = 0; $l = 0; $a = 0; $p = 0;
 
        // Check the four contiguous characters 
        // which can be reordered to form 'clap'
        for ($j = $i; $j < $i + 4; $j++)
        {
            switch ($s[$j])
            {
            case 'c':
                $c++;
                break;
            case 'l':
                $l++;
                break;
            case 'a':
                $a++;
                break;
            case 'p':
                $p++;
                break;
            }
        }
 
        // If all four contiguous characters are present
        // then increment cnt variable
        if ($c == 1 && $l == 1 &&
            $a == 1 && $p == 1)
            $cnt++;
    }
 
    return $cnt;
}
 
// Driver code
$s = "clapc";
 
echo countOcc(strtolower($s));
 
// This code is contributed by Ryuga
?>

Javascript

<script>
 
// Javascript implementation of the approach
 
// Function to return the count of
// required occurrence
function countOcc(s)
{
 
    // To store the count of occurrences
    var cnt = 0;
 
    // Check first four characters from ith position
    for (var i = 0; i < s.length - 3; i++)
    {
 
        // Variables for counting the required characters
        var c = 0, l = 0, a = 0, p = 0;
 
        // Check the four contiguous characters which
        // can be reordered to form 'clap'
        for (var j = i; j < i + 4; j++)
        {
            switch (s[j])
            {
                case 'c':
                    c++;
                    break;
                case 'l':
                    l++;
                    break;
                case 'a':
                    a++;
                    break;
                case 'p':
                    p++;
                    break;
            }
        }
 
        // If all four contiguous characters are present
        // then increment cnt variable
        if (c == 1 && l == 1 && a == 1 && p == 1)
            cnt++;
    }
 
    return cnt;
}
 
// Driver code
var s = "clapc";
s = s.toLowerCase();
document.write(countOcc(s));
 
 
</script>

Output:

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