Number of Substrings Containing All Three Characters
Given a string s consisting only of characters a, b and c.
Return the number of substrings containing at least one occurrence of all these characters a, b and c.
Example 1:
Input: s = "abcabc"
Output: 10
Explanation: The substrings containing at least one occurrence of the characters a, b and c are "abc", "abca", "abcab", "abcabc", "bca", "bcab", "bcabc", "cab", "cabc" and "abc" (again).
Example 2:
Input: s = "aaacb"
Output: 3
Explanation: The substrings containing at least one occurrence of the characters a, b and c are "aaacb", "aacb" and "acb".
Example 3:
Input: s = "abc"
Output: 1
Constraints:
3 <= s.length <= 5 x 10^4
s only consists of a, b or c characters.
class Solution {
public int numberOfSubstrings(String s) {
int count[] = { 0, 0, 0 }, res = 0, i = 0, n = s.length();
for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
++count[s.charAt(j) - 'a'];
// Compressing current window from left until one of the 3 (a,b,c) vanishes
while (count[0] > 0 && count[1] > 0 && count[2] > 0)
count[s.charAt(i++) - 'a']--;
// now at this point we know that all the substrings from left side
// ending at i-1 have atleast 1 (a,b,c)
// therefore we can add all those subarrays
res += i;
}
return res;
}
}