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1291. Sequential Digits

SourceWeekly Contest 167 Q2DifficultyMediumRating1373

Description

An integer has sequential digits if and only if each digit in the number is one more than the previous digit.

Return a sorted list of all the integers in the range [low, high] inclusive that have sequential digits.

 

Example 1:

Input: low = 100, high = 300
Output: [123,234]

Example 2:

Input: low = 1000, high = 13000
Output: [1234,2345,3456,4567,5678,6789,12345]

 

Constraints:

  • 10 <= low <= high <= 10^9

Solutions

Solution 1

Thinking

Sequential digits are contiguous increasing digit runs; there are only the substrings of \(123456789\). \(low\) and \(high\) reach \(10^9\), so scanning values is wasteful. We enumerate start \(i\) and end \(j\), build \(i\ldots j\), keep those in range, and sort.

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class Solution:
    def sequentialDigits(self, low: int, high: int) -> List[int]:
        ans = []
        for i in range(1, 9):
            x = i
            for j in range(i + 1, 10):
                x = x * 10 + j
                if low <= x <= high:
                    ans.append(x)
        return sorted(ans)

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class Solution {
    public List<Integer> sequentialDigits(int low, int high) {
        List<Integer> ans = new ArrayList<>();
        for (int i = 1; i < 9; ++i) {
            int x = i;
            for (int j = i + 1; j < 10; ++j) {
                x = x * 10 + j;
                if (x >= low && x <= high) {
                    ans.add(x);
                }
            }
        }
        Collections.sort(ans);
        return ans;
    }
}

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class Solution {
public:
    vector<int> sequentialDigits(int low, int high) {
        vector<int> ans;
        for (int i = 1; i < 9; ++i) {
            int x = i;
            for (int j = i + 1; j < 10; ++j) {
                x = x * 10 + j;
                if (x >= low && x <= high) {
                    ans.push_back(x);
                }
            }
        }
        sort(ans.begin(), ans.end());
        return ans;
    }
};

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func sequentialDigits(low int, high int) (ans []int) {
    for i := 1; i < 9; i++ {
        x := i
        for j := i + 1; j < 10; j++ {
            x = x*10 + j
            if low <= x && x <= high {
                ans = append(ans, x)
            }
        }
    }
    sort.Ints(ans)
    return
}

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function sequentialDigits(low: number, high: number): number[] {
    const ans: number[] = [];
    for (let i = 1; i < 9; ++i) {
        let x = i;
        for (let j = i + 1; j < 10; ++j) {
            x = x * 10 + j;
            if (x >= low && x <= high) {
                ans.push(x);
            }
        }
    }
    ans.sort((a, b) => a - b);
    return ans;
}

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