#C6625. Minimum Window Substring
Minimum Window Substring
Minimum Window Substring
Given two strings s
and t
, find the minimum window in s
which will contain all the characters in t
(including duplicates). If there is no such window in s
that covers all characters in t
, return an empty string "".
Note: If there is such a window, it is guaranteed that there will always be only one unique minimum window substring.
The problem can be formally formulated as: find indices \(i\) and \(j\) (with \(0 \le i \le j < |s|\)) such that the substring \(s[i..j]\) contains every character from t
at least as many times as it appears in t
, and \(j-i+1\) is minimized. We use the notation \( |s| \) to denote the length of s
.
inputFormat
The input is read from standard input (stdin) and consists of two lines:
- The first line contains the string
s
. - The second line contains the string
t
.
Both strings consist only of printable ASCII characters.
outputFormat
Output to standard output (stdout) a single line containing the minimum window substring of s
that contains all the characters (with correct counts) of t
. If no such window exists, output an empty string.
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ABC
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