#string

Solutions A simple solution that makes use of extra space consists in simply copying words backwards to a temporary array starting from the last one. However, an classical in-place solution exists and works in two steps: first reverse the string blindly and then reverse every single word individually. Note that the input of this puzzle contains multiple lines and empty ones must be preserved. Here is a C++ solution: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 std::string s{std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(std::cin), {}}; // read full input into memory, preserving newlines and spaces std::reverse(begin(s), end(s)); // reverse the string blindly auto head = begin(s); while (head ! [Read More]

To solve the problem we can easily observe that swapping the first c with the last p minimizes the tastiness. The answer is \(0\) when either: there are not p there are not c the last p is before the first c For example: 1 pppccc Instead, if neither of the conditions above occur, we swap the first occurrence of c with the last occurrence of p and we proceed with computing the tastiness. [Read More]