minimum-window-substring


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Points: 5
Time limit: 30.0s
Memory limit: 250M

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Given two strings s and t of lengths m and n respectively, return the minimum window substring of s such that every character in t (including duplicates) is included in the window. If there is no such substring, return the empty string "".

The testcases will be generated such that the answer is unique.

  Example 1:

Input: s = "ADOBECODEBANC", t = "ABC" Output: "BANC" Explanation: The minimum window substring "BANC" includes 'A', 'B', and 'C' from string t.

Example 2:

Input: s = "a", t = "a" Output: "a" Explanation: The entire string s is the minimum window.

Example 3:

Input: s = "a", t = "aa" Output: "" Explanation: Both 'a's from t must be included in the window. Since the largest window of s only has one 'a', return empty string.

  Constraints:

m == s.length
n == t.length
1 <= m, n <= 10⁵
s and t consist of uppercase and lowercase English letters.

  Follow up: Could you find an algorithm that runs in O(m + n) time?


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