Finds the smallest substring containing the characters of a given string in O(n+m) time complexity. Utilizing a sliding window algorithm. Java Solution
Instructions: Given two strings s and t of lengths m and n respectively, return the minimum window substring of s such that every character in t (including duplicates) is included in the window. If there is no such substring, return the empty string "".
The testcases will be generated such that the answer is unique.
A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within the string.
Example 1:
Input: s = "ADOBECODEBANC", t = "ABC" Output: "BANC" Explanation: The minimum window substring "BANC" includes 'A', 'B', and 'C' from string t. Example 2:
Input: s = "a", t = "a" Output: "a" Explanation: The entire string s is the minimum window. Example 3:
Input: s = "a", t = "aa" Output: "" Explanation: Both 'a's from t must be included in the window. Since the largest window of s only has one 'a', return empty string.
Constraints:
m == s.length n == t.length 1 <= m, n <= 105 s and t consist of uppercase and lowercase English letters.
Follow up: Could you find an algorithm that runs in O(m + n) time?
Link to question: https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-window-substring/