793. Swap Adjacent in LR String

Medium
Two Pointers
String

Description

In a string composed of 'L', 'R', and 'X' characters, like "RXXLRXRXL", a move consists of either replacing one occurrence of "XL" with "LX", or replacing one occurrence of "RX" with "XR". Given the starting string start and the ending string result, return True if and only if there exists a sequence of moves to transform start to result.

 

Example 1:

Input: start = "RXXLRXRXL", result = "XRLXXRRLX"
Output: true
Explanation: We can transform start to result following these steps:
RXXLRXRXL ->
XRXLRXRXL ->
XRLXRXRXL ->
XRLXXRRXL ->
XRLXXRRLX

Example 2:

Input: start = "X", result = "L"
Output: false

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= start.length <= 104
  • start.length == result.length
  • Both start and result will only consist of characters in 'L', 'R', and 'X'.

Hints

Hint 1
Think of the L and R's as people on a horizontal line, where X is a space. The people can't cross each other, and also you can't go from XRX to RXX.

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