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2914. Minimum Number of Changes to Make Binary String Beautiful
You are given a 0-indexed binary string s having an even length.
A string is beautiful if it's possible to partition it into one or more substrings such that:
Each substring has an even length.
Each substring contains only 1's or only 0's.
You can change any character in s to 0 or 1.
Return the minimum number of changes required to make the string s beautiful.
Example 1:
Input: s = "1001"
Output: 2
Explanation: We change s[1] to 1 and s[3] to 0 to get string "1100".
It can be seen that the string "1100" is beautiful because we can partition it into "11|00".
It can be proven that 2 is the minimum number of changes needed to make the string beautiful.
Example 2:
Input: s = "10"
Output: 1
Explanation: We change s[1] to 1 to get string "11".
It can be seen that the string "11" is beautiful because we can partition it into "11".
It can be proven that 1 is the minimum number of changes needed to make the string beautiful.
Example 3:
Input: s = "0000"
Output: 0
Explanation: We don't need to make any changes as the string "0000" is beautiful already.
Constraints:
2 <= s.length <= 105
s has an even length.
s[i] is either '0' or '1'.
class Solution {
public:
int minChanges(string s) {
int cnt=0;
int n = s.size();
for(int i=1; i<n; i += 2){
if(s[i-1] != s[i])
cnt++;
}
return cnt;
}
};
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