Description
Given an integer n, find the closest integer (not including itself), which is a palindrome.
The ‘closest’ is defined as absolute difference minimized between two integers.
Example 1:
Input: “123”
Output: “121”
Note:
The input n is a positive integer represented by string, whose length will not exceed 18.
If there is a tie, return the smaller one as answer.
Solution
给一个string表示回文数,找到最接近它的非自身回文数。
We use two helper to find a bigger palindrome and a smaller palindrome. Then return the one with smaller absolute difference.
To find higher, we conver string to long, then from long to string and to char array. Make target a palindrome first. Then compare each digit, it target is smaller, make it bigger from the middle j = (m - 1) /2. If out of ‘9’, become ‘0’; After that, make it palindrome again and return it.
For finding a smaller one, same as find higher one. But when chagnged target, if the leading digit is ‘0’, new a new char[] which is filled with ‘9’ and return it for special case.
Code
class Solution {
public String nearestPalindromic(String n) {
long num = Long.parseLong(n);
long higher = findHigherPalindrom(num + 1);
long lower = findLowerPalindrom(num - 1);
return Math.abs(num - lower) > Math.abs(higher - num) ? String.valueOf(higher) : String.valueOf(lower);
}
private long findHigherPalindrom(long limit){
String n = Long.toString(limit);
char[] origin = n.toCharArray();
int len = origin.length;
char[] target = Arrays.copyOf(origin, len);
for (int i = 0; i < len / 2; i++){
target[len - 1 - i] = target[i];
}
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++){
if (origin[i] < target[i]){
return Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(target));
}
else if (origin[i] > target[i]){
for (int j = (len - 1) / 2; j >= 0; j--){
if (++target[j] > '9'){
target[j] = '0';
}
else{
break;
}
}
for (int k = 0; k < len / 2; k++){
target[len - 1 - k] = target[k];
}
return Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(target));
}
}
return Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(target));
}
private long findLowerPalindrom(long limit){
String n = Long.toString(limit);
char[] origin = n.toCharArray();
int len = origin.length;
char[] target = Arrays.copyOf(origin, len);
for (int i = 0; i < len / 2; i++){
target[len - 1 - i] = target[i];
}
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++){
if (origin[i] > target[i]){
return Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(target));
}
else if (origin[i] < target[i]){
for (int j = (len - 1) / 2; j >= 0; j--){
if (--target[j] < '0'){
target[j] = '9';
}
else{
break;
}
}
if (target[0] == '0'){
char[] special = new char[len - 1];
Arrays.fill(special, '9');
return Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(special));
}
for (int k = 0; k < len / 2; k++){
target[len - 1 - k] = target[k];
}
return Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(target));
}
}
return Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(target));
}
}
Time Complexity: unknow
Space Complexity: unknow
Review
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