You should pack your words in a greedy approach; that is, pack as many words as you can in each line. Pad extra spaces
' '
when necessary so that each line has exactly L characters.
Extra spaces between words should be distributed as evenly as possible. If the number of spaces on a line do not divide evenly between words, the empty slots on the left will be assigned more spaces than the slots on the right.
For the last line of text, it should be left justified and no extra space is inserted between words.
For example,
words:
["This", "is", "an", "example", "of", "text", "justification."]
L:
16
.
Return the formatted lines as:
[ "This is an", "example of text", "justification. " ]Note: Each word is guaranteed not to exceed L in length.
Naive Way: The problem said "You should pack your words in a greedy approach". So I will pack the words greedily. Grad as many words as I can each time to form a line. To calculate the space, use an extra var to hold the remaining space after evenly distributes. For the last column, could assign an extra check.
Combining one word case and the last line case is feasible.
public class Solution {
public List<String> fullJustify(String[] words, int L) {
List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
int i = 0;
while(i < words.length){
int j = i;
int len = 0;
// grab as many words as I can
while(j < words.length && len+ (j-i) + words[j].length() <= L) len += words[j++].length();
// # of space need to be inserted between each word is j==i?0:(L-len)/(j-i)
int space = j<=i+1?0:(L-len)/(j-i-1);
// # of space remained, L - len - space*(j-i);
int remain = L -len- space*(j-i-1);
// construct a line
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
// one word case & last line case
if(j==words.length || j<=i+1){
for(int t = i;t < j;t++){
s.append(words[t]);
if(t!=j-1) s.append(" ");
}
remain += space*(j-i-1)-(j-i-1);
for(int t = 0;t < remain;t++) s.append(" ");
}else{
// general case
for(int t = i;t < j;t++,remain--){
s.append(words[t]);
if(t!=j-1) for(int u = 0;u < space;u++) s.append(" ");
if(remain > 0) s.append(" ");
}
}
// add line
list.add(s.toString());
i = j;
}
return list;
}
}
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