Class Solution
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public final class Solution
2938 - Separate Black and White Balls\.
Medium
There are
n
balls on a table, each ball has a color black or white.You are given a 0-indexed binary string
s
of lengthn
, where1
and0
represent black and white balls, respectively.In each step, you can choose two adjacent balls and swap them.
Return the minimum number of steps to group all the black balls to the right and all the white balls to the left.
Example 1:
Input: s = "101"
Output: 1
Explanation: We can group all the black balls to the right in the following way:
Swap s0 and s1, s = "011".
Initially, 1s are not grouped together, requiring at least 1 step to group them to the right.
Example 2:
Input: s = "100"
Output: 2
Explanation: We can group all the black balls to the right in the following way:
Swap s0 and s1, s = "010".
Swap s1 and s2, s = "001".
It can be proven that the minimum number of steps needed is 2.
Example 3:
Input: s = "0111"
Output: 0
Explanation: All the black balls are already grouped to the right.
Constraints:
<code>1 <= n == s.length <= 10<sup>5</sup></code>
s[i]
is either'0'
or'1'
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Constructor Summary
Constructors Constructor Description Solution()
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Method Summary
Modifier and Type Method Description final Long
minimumSteps(String s)
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Method Detail
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minimumSteps
final Long minimumSteps(String s)
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