392. Is Subsequence

Is Subsequence - LeetCode

Given two strings s and t, return true__ if __s__ is a subsequence of __t__, or __false__ otherwise__. A subsequence of a string is a new string that is formed from the original string by deleting some (can be none) of the characters without disturbing the relative positions of the remaining characters. (i.e., “ace” is a subsequence of “abcde” while “aec” is not).

Example 1: Input: s = “abc”, t = “ahbgdc” Output: true Example 2: Input: s = “axc”, t = “ahbgdc” Output: false

Constraints:

0 <= s.length <= 100
0 <= t.length <= 104
s and t consist only of lowercase English letters. 

Follow up: Suppose there are lots of incoming s, say s1, s2, …, sk where k >= 109, and you want to check one by one to see if t has its subsequence. In this scenario, how would you change your code?


  • code
class Solution {
    public boolean isSubsequence(String s, String t) {
        int si = 0, ti = 0;
        while (si < s.length() && ti < t.length()){
            if (s.charAt(si) == t.charAt(ti)) si++;
            ti++;
        }
        return si == s.length();
    }
}
  • code
class Solution {
    public boolean isSubsequence(String s, String t) {
        int si = 0, ti = 0;
        while (si < s.length()){
            while(ti < t.length() && s.charAt(si) != t.charAt(ti)){
                ti++;
            }
            if (ti < t.length() && s.charAt(si) == t.charAt(ti)){
                si++;
                ti++;
            }else{
                return false;
            }
        }
        return si == s.length();
    }
}
  • code
class Solution:
    def isSubsequence(self, s: str, t: str) -> bool:
        si = ti = 0
        
        while si < len(s) and ti < len(t):
            if s[si] == t[ti]:
                si += 1
            ti += 1
            
        if si == len(s): return True
        return False