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Suppose we abstract our file system by a string in the following manner: The string "dir\n\tsubdir1\n\tsubdir2\n\t\tfile.ext" represents: dir subdir1 subdir2 file.ext The directory dir contains an empty sub-directory subdir1 and a sub-directory subdir2 containing a file file.ext. The string "dir\n\tsubdir1\n\t\tfile1.ext\n\t\tsubsubdir1\n\tsubdir2\n\t\tsubsubdir2\n\t\t\tfile2.ext" represents: dir subdir1 file1.ext subsubdir1 subdir2 subsubdir2 file2.ext The directory dir contains two sub-directories subdir1 and subdir2. subdir1 contains a file file1.ext and an empty second-level sub-directory subsubdir1. subdir2 contains a second-level sub-directory subsubdir2 containing a file file2.ext. We are interested in finding the longest (number of characters) absolute path to a file within our file system. For example, in the second example above, the longest absolute path is "dir/subdir2/subsubdir2/file2.ext", and its length is 32 (not including the double quotes). Given a string representing the file system in the above format, return the length of the longest absolute path to file in the abstracted file system. If there is no file in the system, return 0. Note: The name of a file contains at least a . and an extension. The name of a directory or sub-directory will not contain a .. Time complexity required: O(n) where n is the size of the input string. Notice that a/aa/aaa/file1.txt is not the longest file path, if there is another path aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/sth.png.
We'll use a dictionary path_len
to keep track of the current character length (values) at each depth (keys). Depth 0 will have a length of 0.
Initialize max_len
to 0.
Split the input based on the newline character. Iterate on each resulting line:
name
by excluding the tab charactersname
)path_len[depth] + len(name)
and update max_len
if neededpath_len[depth + 1] = path_len[depth] + len(name) + 1
+ 1
because each depth is separated by the '/' charactermax_len
Complexity:
class Solution(object):
def length_longest_path(self, file_system):
if file_system is None:
raise TypeError('file_system cannot be None')
max_len = 0
path_len = {0: 0}
for line in file_system.splitlines():
name = line.lstrip('\t')
depth = len(line) - len(name)
if '.' in name:
max_len = max(max_len, path_len[depth] + len(name))
else:
path_len[depth + 1] = path_len[depth] + len(name) + 1
return max_len
%%writefile test_length_longest_path.py
import unittest
class TestSolution(unittest.TestCase):
def test_length_longest_path(self):
solution = Solution()
self.assertRaises(TypeError, solution.length_longest_path, None)
self.assertEqual(solution.length_longest_path(''), 0)
file_system = 'dir\n\tsubdir1\n\t\tfile1.ext\n\t\tsubsubdir1\n\tsubdir2\n\t\tsubsubdir2\n\t\t\tfile2.ext'
expected = 32
self.assertEqual(solution.length_longest_path(file_system), expected)
print('Success: test_length_longest_path')
def main():
test = TestSolution()
test.test_length_longest_path()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Overwriting test_length_longest_path.py
%run -i test_length_longest_path.py
Success: test_length_longest_path