1436. Destination City

You are given the array paths, where paths[i] = [cityAi, cityBi] means there exists a direct path going from cityAi to cityBiReturn the destination city, that is, the city without any path outgoing to another city.

It is guaranteed that the graph of paths forms a line without any loop, therefore, there will be exactly one destination city.

Example 1:

Input: paths = [["London","New York"],["New York","Lima"],["Lima","Sao Paulo"]]
Output: "Sao Paulo" 
Explanation: Starting at "London" city you will reach "Sao Paulo" city which is the destination city. Your trip consist of: "London" -> "New York" -> "Lima" -> "Sao Paulo".

Example 2:

Input: paths = [["B","C"],["D","B"],["C","A"]]
Output: "A"
Explanation: All possible trips are: 
"D" -> "B" -> "C" -> "A". 
"B" -> "C" -> "A". 
"C" -> "A". 
"A". 
Clearly the destination city is "A".

Example 3:

Input: paths = [["A","Z"]]
Output: "Z"

Constraints:

  • 1 <= paths.length <= 100
  • paths[i].length == 2
  • 1 <= cityAi.length, cityBi.length <= 10
  • cityAi != cityBi
  • All strings consist of lowercase and uppercase English letters and the space character.
class Solution {
    public String destCity(List<List<String>> paths) {
        List<String> list = new ArrayList();
        for(int i = 0; i < paths.size(); i++){
            if(!list.contains(paths.get(i).get(1))) list.add(paths.get(i).get(1));
            else list.remove(paths.get(i).get(1));
        }
        for(int i = 0; i < paths.size(); i++){
            if(list.contains(paths.get(i).get(0))) list.remove(paths.get(i).get(0));
        }
        return list.get(0);
    }
}

观察,得到特征:所有destination都出现一次且只出现在list的第二位,第一遍把独特的list第二个city找出来,第二遍遍历把独一无二的找出来就可以了

class Solution {
    public String destCity(List<List<String>> paths) {
        Set<String> set= new HashSet<>();
        for (List<String> l: paths) set.add(l.get(1));
        for (List<String> l: paths) set.remove(l.get(0));
        return set.iterator().next();
    }
}

这种方法更好

原文地址:https://www.cnblogs.com/wentiliangkaihua/p/12840405.html