Minimum Window Substring

Problem

Find the shortest substring containing all target characters with multiplicity.

Examples

Example 1

Input: ["ADOBECODEBANC","ABC"]

Output: "BANC"

Example 2

Input: ["a","aa"]

Output: ""

Input and output use JSON-compatible values. For linked-list and tree questions, arrays represent the node structure as described above. Your code should implement solve(input).

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Compiler

How to solve Minimum Window Substring

One approach is: Use a sliding window and counts of required characters. The reference code demonstrates this method. Compare the example and edge-case tests, then consider time and space usage.

Time and space complexity

Discuss the dominant operations and any additional data structures used by your implementation.

Practise and improve

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