132. Palindrome Partitioning II

Description

Given a string s, partition s such that every substring of the partition is a palindrome.

Return the minimum cuts needed for a palindrome partitioning of s.

Constraints

Approach

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Examples

Example 1

Input: s = "aab"

Output: 1

Explanation: The palindrome partitioning ["aa", "b"] could be produced using 1 cut.

Example 2

Example 3

Solutions

Solution 1

/**
 * Time complexity : 
 * Space complexity : 
 */

class Solution {
    public int minCut(String s) {
        if(s == null || s.length() <= 1) return 0;
        
        int n = s.length();
        boolean[][] isPalindrome = new boolean[n][n];
        int[] cut = new int[n];
        
        for(int i = 1; i < n; i++) {
            int min = i;
            for(int j = 0; j <= i; j++) {
                if(s.charAt(i) == s.charAt(j) && 
                   (i <= j+1 || isPalindrome[i-1][j+1])) {
                    isPalindrome[i][j] = true;
                    if(j == 0) {
                        min = Math.min(min, 0);
                    } else {
                        min = Math.min(min, 1+cut[j-1]);
                    }
                }
            }
            cut[i] = min;
        }
        
        return cut[n-1];
    }
}

Solution 2

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