Problem Statement The Longest Common Prefix LeetCode Solution – “Longest Common Prefix” states that given an array of strings. We need to find the longest common prefix among these strings. If there doesn’t exist any prefix, return an empty string. Example: Input: strs = [“flower”,”flow”,”flight”] Output: “fl” Explanation: “fl” is the longest …
Problem Statement The Trapping Rain Water LeetCode Solution – “Trapping Rain Water” states that given an array of heights which represents an elevation map where the width of each bar is 1. We need to find the amount of water trapped after rain. Example: Input: height = [0,1,0,2,1,0,1,3,2,1,2,1] Output: 6 Explanation: Check …
Problem Statement Remove Duplicates from Sorted List LeetCode Solution – We are given the head of a sorted linked list. We are asked to delete all the duplicates such that each element appears only once and return the linked list sorted as well. Examples & Explanations Example 1: Input: head …
Problem Statement Clone Graph LeetCode Solution – We are given a reference of a node in a connected undirected graph and are asked to return a deep copy of the graph. A deep copy is basically a clone where no node present in the deep copy should have the reference …
Problem Statement The Valid Parentheses LeetCode Solution – “Valid Parentheses” states that you’re given a string containing just the characters ‘(‘, ‘)’, ‘{‘, ‘}’, ‘[‘ and ‘]’. We need to determine whether the input string is a valid string or not. A string is said to be a valid string if open brackets must be closed …
Problem Statement Kth Smallest Element in a Sorted Matrix LeetCode Solution – We are given a matrix of size n where each of the rows and columns is sorted in ascending order. We are asked to return the kth smallest element in the matrix. Note that it is the kth …
Problem Statement Construct Binary Tree from Preorder and Postorder Traversal LeetCode Solution – Given two integer arrays, preorder and postorder where preorder is the preorder traversal of a binary tree of distinct values and postorder is the postorder traversal of the same tree, reconstruct and return the binary tree. If there exist multiple answers, you can return any of them. Input: preorder …
Problem Statement Remove Duplicates from Sorted List II LeetCode Solution – Given the head of a sorted linked list, delete all nodes that have duplicate numbers, leaving only distinct numbers from the original list. Return the linked list sorted as well. Input: head = [1,2,3,3,4,4,5] Output: [1,2,5] Explanation The idea here is to traverse …
Problem Statement Can Place Flowers LeetCode Solution – You have a long flowerbed in which some of the plots are planted, and some are not. However, flowers cannot be planted in adjacent plots. Given an integer array flowerbed containing 0‘s and 1‘s, where 0 means empty and 1 means not empty, and an integer n, return if n new flowers can be planted in …
Problem Statement First Unique Character in a String LeetCode Solution – Given a string s, find the first non-repeating character in it and return its index. If it does not exist, return -1. Example Test Case 1: Input: s = “leetcode” Output: 0 Test Case 2: Input: s = “aabb” Output: -1 Explanation …