Maximum Product of Word Lengths
Given a string array words, find the maximum value of length(word[i]) * length(word[j]) where the two words do not share common letters.
You may assume that each word will contain only lower case letters.
If no such two words exist, return 0.
Example 1:
Given ["abcw", "baz", "foo", "bar", "xtfn", "abcdef"]
Return 16
The two words can be "abcw", "xtfn".
Example 2:
Given ["a", "ab", "abc", "d", "cd", "bcd", "abcd"]
Return 4
The two words can be "ab", "cd".
Example 3:
Given ["a", "aa", "aaa", "aaaa"]
Return 0
No such pair of words.
Credits:Special thanks to @dietpepsi for adding this problem and creating all test cases.
Solution
public class Solution {
public int maxProduct(String[] words) {
if (words == null || words.length <= 1) return 0;
int result = 0;
List<Word> wordList = new ArrayList<>();
for (String s : words) {
wordList.add(new Word(s));
}
for (int i = 0; i < wordList.size(); i++) {
for (int j = i + 1; j < wordList.size(); j++) {
if (!wordList.get(i).share(wordList.get(j))) {
result = Math.max(result, wordList.get(i).s.length() * wordList.get(j).s.length());
}
}
}
return result;
}
public class Word {
int[] array;
String s;
public Word(String s) {
this.s = s;
this.array = new int[26];
for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
array[c - 'a'] = 1;
}
}
public boolean share(Word s2) {
int[] array2 = s2.array;
for (int i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
if (array2[i] == 1 && array[i] == 1) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
}
}