Question
Given an array of words and a length L, format the text such that each line has exactly L characters and is fully (left and right) justified.
You should pack your words in a greedy approach; that is, pack as many words as you can in each line. Pad extra spaces ' ' when necessary so that each line has exactly L characters.
Extra spaces between words should be distributed as evenly as possible. If the number of spaces on a line do not divide evenly between words, the empty slots on the left will be assigned more spaces than the slots on the right.
For the last line of text, it should be left justified and no extra space is inserted between words.
For example,
words: ["This", "is", "an", "example", "of", "text", "justification."]
L: 16.
Return the formatted lines as:
[ "This is an", "example of text", "justification. " ]
Note: Each word is guaranteed not to exceed L in length.
Stats
| Frequency | 2 |
| Difficulty | 4 |
| Adjusted Difficulty | unsolvable |
| Time to use | unsolvable |
Ratings/Color = 1(white) 2(lime) 3(yellow) 4/5(red)
Solution
I was not able to come up with a solution.
I found solution in here, here and here. I will post the code from first link.
My code
public ArrayList < String > fullJustify(String[] words, int L) {
int wordsCount = words.length;
ArrayList < String > result = new ArrayList < String > ();
int curLen = 0;
int lastI = 0;
for (int i = 0; i <= wordsCount; i++) {
if (i == wordsCount || curLen + words[i].length() + i - lastI > L) {
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
int spaceCount = L - curLen;
int spaceSlots = i - lastI - 1;
if (spaceSlots == 0 || i == wordsCount) {
for (int j = lastI; j < i; j++) {
buf.append(words[j]);
if (j != i - 1)
appendSpace(buf, 1);
}
appendSpace(buf, L - buf.length());
} else {
int spaceEach = spaceCount / spaceSlots;
int spaceExtra = spaceCount % spaceSlots;
for (int j = lastI; j < i; j++) {
buf.append(words[j]);
if (j != i - 1)
appendSpace(buf, spaceEach + (j - lastI < spaceExtra ? 1 : 0));
}
}
result.add(buf.toString());
lastI = i;
curLen = 0;
}
if (i < wordsCount)
curLen += words[i].length();
}
return result;
}
private void appendSpace(StringBuffer sb, int count) {
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
sb.append(' ');
}