You have given two strings 'A' and ‘B’ of length ‘N’ each which only consists of lowercase English letters. You have also given an integer ‘K’.Your task is to determine if it is possible to convert string ‘A’ into ‘B’ after performing two types of operations on it:1. Choose an index i (1 <= i <= N - 1) and swap A[i] and A[i+1].2. Choose an index i (1 <= i <= N - K + 1) and if A[i], A[i+1],. . . . , A[i+K-1] all are equal to some character x (x != ‘z’), then you can replace each one with the next character (x + 1) , i.e. ‘a’ is replaced by ‘b’, ‘b’ is replaced by ‘c’ and so on.Note:You are allowed to perform any operation any number of times(possibly zero) only on string 'A'.
Question
You have given two strings 'A' and ‘B’ of length ‘N’ each which only consists of lowercase English letters. You have also given an integer ‘K’.Your task is to determine if it is possible to convert string ‘A’ into ‘B’ after performing two types of operations on it:1. Choose an index i (1 <= i <= N - 1) and swap A[i] and A[i+1].2. Choose an index i (1 <= i <= N - K + 1) and if A[i], A[i+1],. . . . , A[i+K-1] all are equal to some character x (x != ‘z’), then you can replace each one with the next character (x + 1) , i.e. ‘a’ is replaced by ‘b’, ‘b’ is replaced by ‘c’ and so on.Note:You are allowed to perform any operation any number of times(possibly zero) only on string 'A'.
Solution
To solve this problem, you can follow these steps:
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First, check if the length of both strings A and B are equal. If not, it is impossible to convert string A into string B.
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Then, iterate over each character in both strings. If the character in string B is less than the corresponding character in string A, it is impossible to convert string A into string B because you can only replace a character with the next character in the alphabet.
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If the character in string B is more than the corresponding character in string A, calculate the difference between these characters. If this difference is more than K, it is impossible to convert string A into string B because you can only replace a character with the next character in the alphabet K times.
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If none of the above conditions are met, it means that it is possible to convert string A into string B by performing the given operations.
This algorithm works because the operations allow you to either swap adjacent characters or replace a character with the next character in the alphabet. Therefore, if a character in string B is less than the corresponding character in string A, you cannot make the necessary replacement. Similarly, if the difference between a character in string B and the corresponding character in string A is more than K, you cannot make the necessary replacements within the limit of K operations.
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