Leetcode Text Justification problem solution

YASH PAL,

In this Leetcode Text Justification problem solution we have Given an array of strings words and a width maxWidth, format the text such that each line has exactly maxWidth characters and is fully (left and right) justified. You should pack your words in a greedy approach; that is, pack as many words as you can in each line. Pad extra spaces ‘ ‘ when necessary so that each line has exactly maxWidth characters.

Extra spaces between words should be distributed as evenly as possible. If the number of spaces on a line does not divide evenly between words, the empty slots on the left will be assigned more spaces than the slots on the right. For the last line of text, it should be left justified and no extra space is inserted between words.

Leetcode Text Justification problem solution

Problem solution in Python.

class Solution(object):
    def fullJustify(self, words, maxWidth):
        """
        :type words: List[str]
        :type maxWidth: int
        :rtype: List[str]
        """
        curr_line = []
        curr_line_width = 0
        lines = []
        
        for word in words:
            if len(word) + curr_line_width + len(curr_line) > maxWidth:
                # Need to add justified line
                nspaces = len(curr_line) - 1 if len(curr_line) - 1 else 1
                for i in range(maxWidth - curr_line_width):
                    curr_line[i % nspaces] += " "
                lines.append("".join(curr_line))
                curr_line = []
                curr_line_width = 0
            curr_line.append(word)
            curr_line_width += len(word)
        
        last_line = " ".join(curr_line)
        last_line = last_line.strip()
        last_line = last_line + " "*(maxWidth - len(last_line))
        lines.append(last_line)
        return lines

Problem solution in Java.

class Solution {
    public List<String> fullJustify(String[] words, int maxWidth) {
        List<String> res = new ArrayList<>();
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        int index = 0;
        while (index < words.length) {
            int count = 0;
            int total = 0;
            if (words[index].length() == maxWidth) {
                res.add(words[index]);
                index++;
                continue;
            }
            while (index < words.length && sb.length() + 1 + words[index].length() <= maxWidth) {
                count++;
                if (sb.length() > 0) {
                    sb.append(" ");
                }
                sb.append(words[index]);
                index++;
            }
            if (count == 1 || index == words.length) {
                while (sb.length() != maxWidth) {
                    sb.append(" ");
                }
                res.add(sb.toString());
                sb = new StringBuffer();
                continue;
            }
            String s = adjust(sb.toString(), maxWidth);
            res.add(s);
            sb = new StringBuffer();
        }
        return res;
    }
    private String adjust(String s, int max) {
        String[] array = s.split(" ");
        int total = 0;
        for (String s1 : array) {
            total += s1.length();
        }
        int remain = max - total;
        while (remain > 0) {
            for (int i = 0; i < array.length - 1; i++) {
                if (remain > 0) {
                    array[i] = array[i] + " ";
                    remain--;
                } else {
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        for (String s1 : array) {
            sb.append(s1);
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

Problem solution in C++.

class Solution {
public:
    vector<string> fullJustify(vector<string>& words, int maxWidth) {
        int n = (int)words.size();
        int out = 0;
        vector<string> result;
        while (out < n) {
            int i = out;
            int curWidth = (int)words[i++].size();
            while (i < n && curWidth + 1 + (int)words[i].size() <= maxWidth) 
                curWidth += 1 + (int)words[i++].size();
            int numExtraSpace = maxWidth - curWidth;
            stringstream ss;
            int j = out;
            ss << words[j++];
            for (; j < i; j++) {
                int pad = 0;
                if (i < n) 
                    pad = numExtraSpace / (i-j) + (numExtraSpace % (i-j) ? 1 : 0);
                for (int k = 0; k < pad+1; k++)
                    ss << " ";
                numExtraSpace -= pad;
                ss << words[j];
            }
            for (int k = 0; k < numExtraSpace; k++)
                ss << " ";
            result.push_back(ss.str());
            out = i;
        }
        return result;
    }
};

coding problems solutions