The key doesn't lies in the way it will be solved.It is how efficiently you implement the hash table.do we really need an integer array ( 4*256 bytes) just to record the first occurrence of a character? Saurabh Singh B.Tech (Computer Science) MNNIT blog:geekinessthecoolway.blogspot.com
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Nishant Pandey <nishant.bits.me...@gmail.com > wrote: > you may use look up table for each character like this : > > int table[255]={0}; > > for(int i=0;str[i];i++) > { > if( table[str[i]] ) > return true; > else > { > table[str[i]]=1; > } > > } > return false; > > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Anika Jain <anika.jai...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> you will have to note time for of occurence of a character for all chars >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:15 PM, himanshu kansal < >> himanshukansal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> how can we find 1st repeating character in string??? >>> e.g. if the string is "abba" it should return 'b' and not 'a'..... >>> >>> note: hashing will give the answer as 'a'.... >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Anika Jain >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Nishant Pandey |Specialist Tools Development | > npan...@google.com<gvib...@google.com> | > +91-9911258345 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.