293 - Flip Game
Written on October 29, 2015
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You are playing the following Flip Game with your friend: Given a string that contains only these two characters: + and -, you and your friend take turns to flip two consecutive “++” into “–”. The game ends when a person can no longer make a move and therefore the other person will be the winner. Write a function to compute all possible states of the string after one valid move.
public class Solution {
public List<String> generatePossibleNextMoves(String s) {
List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();
if (s == null || s.length() == 0) return result;
for (int i = 1; i < s.length(); i++) {
if (s.charAt(i - 1) == '+' && s.charAt(i) == '+') {
result.add(s.substring(0, i - 1) + "--" + s.substring(i + 1));
}
}
return result;
}
}
class Solution(object):
def generatePossibleNextMoves(self, s):
"""
:type s: str
:rtype: List[str]
"""
if not s:
return []
ret = []
for i in xrange(1, len(s)):
if s[i] == "+" and s[i-1] == "+":
ret.append(s[:i-1] + "--" + s[i+1:])
return ret