Faded characters in the string are represented by '.' where as other characters are lower case Latin alphabets i.e ['a'-'z'].one or more faded character string can be consist. i want construct the lexicographically smallest palindrome by filling each of the faded character ('.') with a lower case Latin alphabet.I'm trying 3 hours more but i getting wrong verdict. I can't fix my problem. Can anyone help me?
#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
//freopen("a.in", "r", stdin);
//freopen("a.out", "w", stdout);
int test;
string s;
cin>>test;
while(test--)
{
cin>>s;
for(int i=0; i<s.size()/2; i++)
{
if(s[i]=='.')
{
if(s[i]==s[s.size()-1-i])
{
s[i]='a';
s[s.size()-1-i]='a';
}
}
}
if(s.size()%2) s[s.size()/2]='a';
//cout<<"s = "<<s<<endl;
for(int i=0; i<s.size()/2; i++)//left string checking
{
if(s[i]=='.')
{
s[i]=s[s.size()-1-i];
}
}
for(int i=s.size()-1,k=0; i>s.size()/2; i--,k++)//Right string checking
{
if(s[i]=='.')
{
s[i]=s[k];
}
}
//cout<<" ss = "<<s<<endl;
bool flag=true;
for(int i=0; i<s.size()/2; i++)
{
if(s[i]!=s[s.size()-1-i])
{
flag=false;
}
}
if(flag==false) cout<<"-1"<<endl;
else cout<<s<<endl;
}
}
Correction Line ::66 you put middle character always 'a'.We should put character 'a' when middle position are faded character. May be help you.