#P9244. Abbreviated Substring Count
Abbreviated Substring Count
Abbreviated Substring Count
In the programming community, a novel abbreviation method has become popular. For any string S with length L, its abbreviation is formed by keeping only the first and last characters and replacing the intermediate characters with the count of those characters. Formally, if L \ge K, the abbreviation of S is:
\( S[0] \; + \; (L-2) \; + \; S[L-1] \)
For example, internationalization
is abbreviated as i18n
and Lanqiao
as L5o
.
Given a string S and two characters c1 and c2, count the number of substrings of S that start with c1 and end with c2 which can be abbreviated using this method (i.e. the substring's length is at least K).
inputFormat
The input consists of three lines:
- A non-empty string
S
consisting of only English letters. - An integer
K
representing the minimum length required for a substring to be abbreviated. - Two space-separated characters
c1
andc2
.
You can assume that K
is positive and that the characters c1
and c2
appear in S
at least once.
outputFormat
Output a single integer representing the number of substrings of S
that start with c1
and end with c2
and have a length of at least K
.
sample
abcaab
2
a b
4