#3639

Minimum Time to Activate String

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array · binary search

Description

You are given a string s of length n and an integer array order, where order is a permutation of the numbers in the range [0, n - 1].

Starting from time t = 0, replace the character at index order[t] in s with '*' at each time step.

A substring is valid if it contains at least one '*'.

A string is active if the total number of valid substrings is greater than or equal to k.

Return the minimum time t at which the string s becomes active. If it is impossible, return -1.

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