Given a string S and an integer K. The task is to form a string T such that the string T is a reordering of the string S in a way that it is a K-Concatenated-String. A string is said to be a K-Concatenated-String if it contains exactly K copies of some string.
For example, the string “geekgeek” is a 2-Concatenated-String formed by concatenating 2 copies of the string “geek”.
Note: Multiple answers are possible.
Examples:
Input : s = “gkeekgee”, k=2
Output: geekgeek
eegkeegk is another possible K-Concatenated-String
Input: s = “abcd”, k=2
Output: Not Possible
Approach: To find a valid ordering that is a K-Concatenated-string, iterate through the entire string and maintain a frequency array for the characters to hold the number of times each character occurs in a string. Since, in a K-Concatenated-string, the number of times a character occurs should be divisible by K. If any character is found not following this, then the string cant be ordered in any way to represent a K-Concatenated-string, else there can be exactly (Frequency of ith character / K) copies of the ith character in a single copy of the k-Concatenated-string. Such single copies when repeated K times form a valid K-Concatenated-string.
Below is the implementation of the above approach:
C++
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
string kStringGenerate(string str, int k)
{
int frequency[26] = { 0 };
int len = str.length();
for ( int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
frequency[str[i] - 'a' ]++;
}
string single_copy = "" ;
for ( int i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
if (frequency[i] != 0) {
if ((frequency[i] % k) != 0) {
string ans = "Not Possible" ;
return ans;
}
else {
int total_occurrences = (frequency[i] / k);
for ( int j = 0; j < total_occurrences; j++) {
single_copy += char (i + 97);
}
}
}
}
string kString;
for ( int i = 0; i < k; i++) {
kString += single_copy;
}
return kString;
}
int main()
{
string str = "gkeekgee" ;
int K = 2;
string kString = kStringGenerate(str, K);
cout << kString;
return 0;
}
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Java
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
class GFG
{
static String kStringGenerate(String str,
int k)
{
int frequency[] = new int [ 26 ];
Arrays.fill(frequency, 0 );
int len = str.length();
for ( int i = 0 ; i < len; i++)
{
frequency[str.charAt(i) - 'a' ]++;
}
String single_copy = "" ;
for ( int i = 0 ; i < 26 ; i++)
{
if (frequency[i] != 0 )
{
if ((frequency[i] % k) != 0 )
{
String ans = "Not Possible" ;
return ans;
}
else
{
int total_occurrences = (frequency[i] / k);
for ( int j = 0 ;
j < total_occurrences; j++)
{
single_copy += ( char )(i + 97 );
}
}
}
}
String kString = "" ;
for ( int i = 0 ; i < k; i++)
{
kString += single_copy;
}
return kString;
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String str = "gkeekgee" ;
int K = 2 ;
String kString = kStringGenerate(str, K);
System.out.print(kString);
}
}
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Python3
def kStringGenerate(st, k):
frequency = [ 0 ] * 26
length = len (st)
for i in range (length):
frequency[ ord (st[i]) - ord ( 'a' )] + = 1
single_copy = ""
for i in range ( 26 ):
if (frequency[i] ! = 0 ):
if ((frequency[i] % k) ! = 0 ):
ans = "Not Possible"
return ans
else :
total_occurrences = (frequency[i] / / k)
for j in range (total_occurrences):
single_copy + = chr (i + 97 )
kString = ""
for i in range (k):
kString + = single_copy
return kString
if __name__ = = "__main__" :
st = "gkeekgee"
K = 2
kString = kStringGenerate(st, K)
print (kString)
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C#
using System;
class GFG
{
static String kStringGenerate(String str,
int k)
{
int []frequency = new int [26];
int len = str.Length;
for ( int i = 0; i < len; i++)
{
frequency[str[i]- 'a' ]++;
}
String single_copy = "" ;
for ( int i = 0; i < 26; i++)
{
if (frequency[i] != 0)
{
if ((frequency[i] % k) != 0)
{
String ans = "Not Possible" ;
return ans;
}
else
{
int total_occurrences = (frequency[i] / k);
for ( int j = 0;
j < total_occurrences; j++)
{
single_copy += ( char )(i + 97);
}
}
}
}
String kString = "" ;
for ( int i = 0; i < k; i++)
{
kString += single_copy;
}
return kString;
}
public static void Main(String[] args)
{
String str = "gkeekgee" ;
int K = 2;
String kString = kStringGenerate(str, K);
Console.Write(kString);
}
}
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Javascript
<script>
function kStringGenerate(str, k) {
var frequency = new Array(26).fill(0);
var len = str.length;
for ( var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
frequency[str[i].charCodeAt(0) - "a" .charCodeAt(0)]++;
}
var single_copy = "" ;
for ( var i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
if (frequency[i] != 0) {
if (frequency[i] % k != 0) {
var ans = "Not Possible" ;
return ans;
} else {
var total_occurrences = parseInt(frequency[i] / k);
for ( var j = 0; j < total_occurrences; j++) {
single_copy += String.fromCharCode(i + 97);
}
}
}
}
var kString = "" ;
for ( var i = 0; i < k; i++) {
kString += single_copy;
}
return kString;
}
var str = "gkeekgee" ;
var K = 2;
var kString = kStringGenerate(str, K);
document.write(kString);
</script>
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Time Complexity: O(N), Here N is the length of the string.
Auxiliary Space: O(N), Here N is the length of the string.
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15 Jan, 2023
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