Problem Description
There is a row of seats represented by string A. Assume that it contains N seats adjacent to each other.
There is a group of people who are already seated in that row randomly. i.e. some are sitting together & some are scattered.
An occupied seat is marked with a character 'x' and an unoccupied seat is marked with a dot ('.')
Now your target is to make the whole group sit together i.e. next to each other, without having any vacant seat between them in such a way that the total number of hops or jumps to move them should be minimum.
In one jump a person can move to the adjacent seat (if available).
NOTE: 1. Return your answer modulo 107 + 3.
1 <= N <= 1000000
A[i] = 'x' or '.'
The first and only argument is a string A of size N.
Return an integer denoting the minimum number of jumps required.
Input 1:
A = "....x..xx...x.."
Input 2:
A = "....xxx"
Output 1:
5
Output 2:
0
Explanation 1:
Here is the row having 15 seats represented by the String (0, 1, 2, 3, ......... , 14) . . . . x . . x x . . . x . . Now to make them sit together one of approaches is - . . . . . . x x x x . . . . . Steps To achieve this: 1) Move the person sitting at 4th index to 6th index: Number of jumps by him = (6 - 4) = 2 2) Bring the person sitting at 12th index to 9th index: Number of jumps by him = (12 - 9) = 3 So, total number of jumps made: 2 + 3 = 5 which is the minimum possible.If we other ways to make them sit together but the number of jumps will exceed 5 and that will not be minimum.
Explanation 2:
They are already together. So, the cost is zero.
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