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Problem: Minimum Window Subsequence

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30 min
Explore how to solve the minimum window subsequence problem by applying the sliding window technique. Understand how to identify the shortest substring containing another string in order as a subsequence. This lesson helps you implement an optimized solution to tackle subsequence and substring queries in coding interviews.

Statement

Given two strings, s1 and s2, find and return the shortest substring of s1 in which all the characters of s2 appear in the same order, but not necessarily next to each other (i.e., s2 should be a subsequence of the substring).

If no such substring exists, return an empty string "". If there are multiple shortest substrings, return the one that appears first in s1 (i.e., with the left-most starting index).

Note:substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. A subsequence is a sequence of characters that can be derived from a string by deleting some characters without changing the order of the remaining characters. For example, “edu” is a substring and “cave” is a subsequence of “educative.”

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq s1.length 2×103\leq 2 \times 10^{3}

  • 11 \leq s2.length 100\leq 100

  • s1 and s2 consist of uppercase and lowercase English letters.

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Problem: Minimum Window Subsequence

Medium
30 min
Explore how to solve the minimum window subsequence problem by applying the sliding window technique. Understand how to identify the shortest substring containing another string in order as a subsequence. This lesson helps you implement an optimized solution to tackle subsequence and substring queries in coding interviews.

Statement

Given two strings, s1 and s2, find and return the shortest substring of s1 in which all the characters of s2 appear in the same order, but not necessarily next to each other (i.e., s2 should be a subsequence of the substring).

If no such substring exists, return an empty string "". If there are multiple shortest substrings, return the one that appears first in s1 (i.e., with the left-most starting index).

Note:substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. A subsequence is a sequence of characters that can be derived from a string by deleting some characters without changing the order of the remaining characters. For example, “edu” is a substring and “cave” is a subsequence of “educative.”

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq s1.length 2×103\leq 2 \times 10^{3}

  • 11 \leq s2.length 100\leq 100

  • s1 and s2 consist of uppercase and lowercase English letters.