Class Solution


  • public class Solution
    extends Object
    1653 - Minimum Deletions to Make String Balanced.

    Medium

    You are given a string s consisting only of characters 'a' and 'b'.

    You can delete any number of characters in s to make s balanced. s is balanced if there is no pair of indices (i,j) such that i < j and s[i] = 'b' and s[j]= 'a'.

    Return the minimum number of deletions needed to make s balanced.

    Example 1:

    Input: s = “aababbab”

    Output: 2

    Explanation: You can either:

    Delete the characters at 0-indexed positions 2 and 6 (“aababbab” -> “aaabbb”), or

    Delete the characters at 0-indexed positions 3 and 6 (“aababbab” -> “aabbbb”).

    Example 2:

    Input: s = “bbaaaaabb”

    Output: 2

    Explanation: The only solution is to delete the first two characters.

    Constraints:

    • 1 <= s.length <= 105
    • s[i] is 'a' or 'b'.
    • Constructor Detail

      • Solution

        public Solution()
    • Method Detail

      • minimumDeletions

        public int minimumDeletions​(String s)