Find the Longest Substring Containing Vowels in Even Counts in C++

Suppose we have the string s, we have to find the size of the longest substring containing each vowel an even number of times. That is, 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', and 'u' must appear an even number of times. So if the string is like “helloworld”, then the output will be 8.

To solve this, we will follow these steps −

• ret := 0, define two maps m and cnt, set m[“00000”] := -1

• store vowels into vowels array

• for i in range 0 to size of s

  • x := s[i], and ok := false

  • increase cnt[x] by 1, set temp := empty string

  • for k in range 0 to 4: temp := temp + ‘0’ + cnt[vowels[k]] mod 2

  • if m has temp, then ret := max of ret and i – m[temp], otherwise m[temp] := i

• return ret

Example (C++)

Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding −

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
class Solution {
public:
   int findTheLongestSubstring(string s) {
      int ret = 0;
      map <string, int> m;
      map <char, int> cnt;
      m["00000"] = -1;
      char vowels[5] = {'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'};
      for(int i = 0; i < s.size(); i++){
         char x = s[i];
         bool ok = false;
         cnt[x]++;
         string temp = "";
         for(int k = 0; k < 5; k++){
            temp+= ('0' + (cnt[vowels[k]] % 2));
         }
         if(m.count(temp)){
            ret = max(ret, i - m[temp]);
         }
         else{
            m[temp] = i;
         }
      }
      return ret;
   }
};
main(){
   Solution ob;
   cout << (ob.findTheLongestSubstring("helloworld"));
}

Input

“helloworld”

Output

8