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Lexicographically smallest substring with maximum occurrences containing a’s and b’s only

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Given a string s    ( containing characters from ‘0’ to ‘9’) and two digits a    and b    . The task is to find the substring in the given string with maximum occurrences and containing a’s and b’s only. If there are two or more such substrings with same frequencies then print the lexicographically smallest. If there does not exists any such substring then print -1. 

Examples

Input : str = "47", a = 4, b = 7 
Output : 4

Input : str = "23", a = 4, b = 7
Output : -1

The idea is to observe that we need to find the substring with maximum number of occurrences. So, if we consider substrings that contains both a’s and b’s then the number of occurrences will be less than if we consider the substrings with single digits ‘a’ and ‘b’ individually.

So, the idea is to calculate the frequency of digits of ‘a’ and ‘b’ in the string and the one with maximum frequency will be the answer.

Note: If both digits have same frequency then the digit which is lexicographically smaller among ‘a’ and ‘b’ will be the answer.

Below is the implementation of the above approach: 

C++

// CPP program to Find the lexicographically
// smallest substring in a given string with
// maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only
 
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
 
// Function to Find the lexicographically
// smallest substring in a given string with
// maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only.
int maxFreq(string s, int a, int b)
{
    // To store frequency of digits
    int fre[10] = { 0 };
 
    // size of string
    int n = s.size();
 
    // Take lexicographically larger digit in b
    if (a > b)
        swap(a, b);
 
    // get frequency of each character
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
        fre[s[i] - '0']++;
 
    // If no such string exits
    if (fre[a] == 0 and fre[b] == 0)
        return -1;
 
    // Maximum frequency
    else if (fre[a] >= fre[b])
        return a;
    else
        return b;
}
 
// Driver program
int main()
{
    int a = 4, b = 7;
 
    string s = "47744";
 
    cout << maxFreq(s, a, b);
 
    return 0;
}

                    

Java

// Java program to Find the lexicographically
// smallest substring in a given string with
// maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only
 
import java.io.*;
 
class GFG {
 
 
// Function to Find the lexicographically
// smallest substring in a given string with
// maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only.
static int maxFreq(String s, int a, int b)
{
    // To store frequency of digits
    int fre[] =  new int[10];
 
    // size of string
    int n = s.length();
 
    // Take lexicographically larger digit in b
    if (a > b)
    {
        int temp = a;
        a =b;
        b = temp;
     
    }
 
    // get frequency of each character
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
        fre[s.charAt(i) - '0']++;
 
    // If no such string exits
    if (fre[a] == 0 && fre[b] == 0)
        return -1;
 
    // Maximum frequency
    else if (fre[a] >= fre[b])
        return a;
    else
        return b;
}
 
// Driver program
 
    public static void main (String[] args) {
     
    int a = 4, b = 7;
 
    String s = "47744";
 
    System.out.print(maxFreq(s, a, b));
    }
}
// This code is contributed by inder_verma

                    

Python3

# Python 3 program to Find the lexicographically
# smallest substring in a given string with
# maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only
 
# Function to Find the lexicographically
# smallest substring in a given string with
# maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only.
def maxFreq(s, a, b):
    # To store frequency of digits
    fre = [0 for i in range(10)]
 
    # size of string
    n = len(s)
 
    # Take lexicographically larger digit in b
    if (a > b):
        swap(a, b)
 
    # get frequency of each character
    for i in range(0,n,1):
        a = ord(s[i]) - ord('0')
        fre[a] += 1
 
    # If no such string exits
    if (fre[a] == 0 and fre[b] == 0):
        return -1
 
    # Maximum frequency
    elif (fre[a] >= fre[b]):
        return a
    else:
        return b
 
# Driver program
if __name__ == '__main__':
    a = 4
    b = 7
 
    s = "47744"
 
    print(maxFreq(s, a, b))
 
# This code is contributed by
# Surendra_Gangwar

                    

C#

// C# program to Find the lexicographically
// smallest substring in a given string with
// maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only
using System;
 
class GFG {
 
 
// Function to Find the lexicographically
// smallest substring in a given string with
// maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only.
static int maxFreq(string s, int a, int b)
{
    // To store frequency of digits
    int []fre = new int[10];
 
    // size of string
    int n = s.Length;
 
    // Take lexicographically larger digit in b
    if (a > b)
    {
        int temp = a;
        a =b;
        b = temp;
     
    }
 
    // get frequency of each character
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
        fre[s[i] - '0']++;
 
    // If no such string exits
    if (fre[a] == 0 && fre[b] == 0)
        return -1;
 
    // Maximum frequency
    else if (fre[a] >= fre[b])
        return a;
    else
        return b;
}
 
// Driver program
 
    public static void Main () {
     
    int a = 4, b = 7;
 
    string s = "47744";
 
     Console.WriteLine(maxFreq(s, a, b));
    }
}
// This code is contributed by inder_verma

                    

PHP

<?php
// PHP program to Find the lexicographically
// smallest substring in a given string with
// maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only
 
// Function to Find the lexicographically
// smallest substring in a given string with
// maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only.
function maxFreq($s, $a, $b)
{
    // To store frequency of digits
    $fre = array_fill(0, 10, 0);
 
    // size of string
    $n = strlen($s);
 
    // Take lexicographically larger digit in b
    if ($a > $b)
    {
        $xx = $a;
        $a = $b;
        $b = $xx;}
 
     // get frequency of each character
    for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++)
    {
        $a = ord($s[$i]) - ord('0');
        $fre[$a] += 1;
    }
 
    // If no such string exits
    if ($fre[$a] == 0 and $fre[$b] == 0)
        return -1;
 
    // Maximum frequency
    else if ($fre[$a] >= $fre[$b])
        return $a;
    else
        return $b;
}
 
// Driver Code
$a = 4;
$b = 7;
 
$s = "47744";
 
print(maxFreq($s, $a, $b));
 
// This code is contributed by mits
?>

                    

Javascript

<script>
      // JavaScript program to Find the lexicographically
      // smallest substring in a given string with
      // maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only
      // Function to Find the lexicographically
      // smallest substring in a given string with
      // maximum frequency and contains a's and b's only.
      function maxFreq(s, a, b)
      {
       
        // To store frequency of digits
        var fre = new Array(10).fill(0);
 
        // size of string
        var n = s.length;
 
        // Take lexicographically larger digit in b
        if (a > b) {
          var temp = a;
          a = b;
          b = temp;
        }
 
        // get frequency of each character
        for (var i = 0; i < n; i++)
          fre[s[i].charCodeAt(0) - "0".charCodeAt(0)]++;
 
        // If no such string exits
        if (fre[a] === 0 && fre[b] === 0) return -1;
         
        // Maximum frequency
        else if (fre[a] >= fre[b]) return a;
        else return b;
      }
 
      // Driver program
      var a = 4,
        b = 7;
      var s = "47744";
      document.write(maxFreq(s, a, b));
       
      // This code is contributed by rdtank.
    </script>

                    

Output
4

Complexity Analysis:

  • Time Complexity: O(n), where n is the length of the string s.
  • Auxiliary Space: O(10)


Last Updated : 09 Sep, 2022
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