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Maximum Number of Words You Can Type - Link

Question Description

There is a string text consisting of words separated by a single space, and a string brokenLetters containing unique broken keyboard letters. A word can be typed if none of its letters are in brokenLetters. Return the number of words in text that can be typed.

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Constraints

• 1 <= text.length <= 10^4
• 0 <= brokenLetters.length <= 26
• text consists of words separated by a single space without any leading or trailing spaces.
• Each word only consists of lowercase English letters.
• brokenLetters consists of distinct lowercase English letters.

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Approach

1. Create a boolean array of size 26 to mark broken letters.
2. For each broken letter, mark its corresponding index as true.
3. Split the text into words by spaces.
4. For each word, check every character:
   • If any character is broken, skip counting this word.
   • Otherwise, count it as a valid word.

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Dry Run

Example Input: text = “hello world”, brokenLetters = “ad”

Step-by-step execution:

• Mark broken letters: ‘a’ and ‘d’ are broken.
• Split text: [“hello”, “world”]
• Check “hello”: ‘h’,’e’,’l’,’l’,’o’ - none broken, count = 1
• Check “world”: ‘w’,’o’,’r’,’l’,’d’ - ‘d’ is broken, skip
• Final count = 1

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Solution

public class Solution {
    public int canBeTypedWords(String text, String brokenLetters) {
        boolean[] charExists = new boolean[26];
        for (char c : brokenLetters.toCharArray()) {
            charExists[c - 'a'] = true;
        }

        String[] textArr = text.split(" ");
        int count = 0;

        for (String word : textArr) {
            boolean canType = true;
            for (int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) {
                if (charExists[word.charAt(i) - 'a']) {
                    canType = false;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (canType) {
                count++;
            }
        }

        return count;
    }
}

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Time and Space Complexity

• Time Complexity: O(n + m) — n = length of text, m = length of brokenLetters
• Space Complexity: O(1) — Fixed array of size 26 is used for tracking broken letters.

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