Designer PDF Hackerrank Solution
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PROBLEM
When a contiguous block of text is selected in a PDF viewer, the selection is highlighted with a blue rectangle. In this PDF viewer, each word is highlighted independently. For example:
There is a list of character heights aligned by index to their letters. For example, 'a' is at index and 'z' is at index . There will also be a string. Using the letter heights given, determine the area of the rectangle highlight in assuming all letters are wide.
Example
The heights are and . The tallest letter is high and there are letters. The hightlighted area will be so the answer is .
Function Description
Complete the designerPdfViewer function in the editor below.
designerPdfViewer has the following parameter(s):
- int h[26]: the heights of each letter
- string word: a string
Returns
- int: the size of the highlighted area
Input Format
The first line contains space-separated integers describing the respective heights of each consecutive lowercase English letter, ascii[a-z].
The second line contains a single word consisting of lowercase English alphabetic letters.
Constraints
- , where is an English lowercase letter.
- contains no more than letters.
Sample Input 0
1 3 1 3 1 4 1 3 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
abc
Sample Output 0
9
Explanation 0
We are highlighting the word abc:
Letter heights are , and . The tallest letter, b, is high. The selection area for this word is .
Note: Recall that the width of each character is .
Sample Input 1
1 3 1 3 1 4 1 3 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 7
zaba
Sample Output 1
28
Explanation 1
The tallest letter in is at . The selection area for this word is .