DIY: Minimum Window Subsequence
Solve the interview question "Minimum Window Subsequence" in this lesson.
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Problem statement
Given strings s
and t
, find the minimum (contiguous) substring w
of s
, so that t
is a subsequence of s
.
If there is no window in s
that covers all characters in t
, return an empty string ""
. If there are multiple minimum-length windows, return the one with the left-most starting index.
Input
The input will be two strings s
and t
. The following is an example input:
s = "abcdebdde"
t = "bde"
Output
For the above input, the output will be:
"bcde"
The strings "bcde"
and "bdde"
are both minimum subsequences, but "bcde"
occurs before "bdde"
.
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