2222. Number of Ways to Select Buildings

Description

You are given a 0-indexed binary string s which represents the types of buildings along a street where:

  • s[i] = '0' denotes that the ith building is an office and
  • s[i] = '1' denotes that the ith building is a restaurant.

As a city official, you would like to select 3 buildings for random inspection. However, to ensure variety, no two consecutive buildings out of the selected buildings can be of the same type.

  • For example, given s = "001101", we cannot select the 1st, 3rd, and 5th buildings as that would form "011" which is not allowed due to having two consecutive buildings of the same type.

Return the number of valid ways to select 3 buildings.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "001101"
Output: 6
Explanation: 
The following sets of indices selected are valid:
- [0,2,4] from "001101" forms "010"
- [0,3,4] from "001101" forms "010"
- [1,2,4] from "001101" forms "010"
- [1,3,4] from "001101" forms "010"
- [2,4,5] from "001101" forms "101"
- [3,4,5] from "001101" forms "101"
No other selection is valid. Thus, there are 6 total ways.

Example 2:

Input: s = "11100"
Output: 0
Explanation: It can be shown that there are no valid selections.

 

Constraints:

  • 3 <= s.length <= 105
  • s[i] is either '0' or '1'.

Solutions

Solution 1

Python Code
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class Solution:
    def numberOfWays(self, s: str) -> int:
        n = len(s)
        cnt0 = s.count("0")
        cnt1 = n - cnt0
        c0 = c1 = 0
        ans = 0
        for c in s:
            if c == "0":
                ans += c1 * (cnt1 - c1)
                c0 += 1
            else:
                ans += c0 * (cnt0 - c0)
                c1 += 1
        return ans

Java Code
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class Solution {
    public long numberOfWays(String s) {
        int n = s.length();
        int cnt0 = 0;
        for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
            if (c == '0') {
                ++cnt0;
            }
        }
        int cnt1 = n - cnt0;
        long ans = 0;
        int c0 = 0, c1 = 0;
        for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
            if (c == '0') {
                ans += c1 * (cnt1 - c1);
                ++c0;
            } else {
                ans += c0 * (cnt0 - c0);
                ++c1;
            }
        }
        return ans;
    }
}

C++ Code
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class Solution {
public:
    long long numberOfWays(string s) {
        int n = s.size();
        int cnt0 = 0;
        for (char& c : s) cnt0 += c == '0';
        int cnt1 = n - cnt0;
        int c0 = 0, c1 = 0;
        long long ans = 0;
        for (char& c : s) {
            if (c == '0') {
                ans += c1 * (cnt1 - c1);
                ++c0;
            } else {
                ans += c0 * (cnt0 - c0);
                ++c1;
            }
        }
        return ans;
    }
};

Go Code
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func numberOfWays(s string) int64 {
	n := len(s)
	cnt0 := strings.Count(s, "0")
	cnt1 := n - cnt0
	c0, c1 := 0, 0
	ans := 0
	for _, c := range s {
		if c == '0' {
			ans += c1 * (cnt1 - c1)
			c0++
		} else {
			ans += c0 * (cnt0 - c0)
			c1++
		}
	}
	return int64(ans)
}