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2225. Find Players With Zero or One Losses

Question

You are given an integer array matches where matches[i] = [winneri, loseri] indicates that the player winneri defeated player loseri in a match.

Return a list answer of size 2 where:

answer[0] is a list of all players that have not lost any matches. answer[1] is a list of all players that have lost exactly one match. The values in the two lists should be returned in increasing order.

Note:

You should only consider the players that have played at least one match. The testcases will be generated such that no two matches will have the same outcome.

Example 1:

Input: matches = [[1,3],[2,3],[3,6],[5,6],[5,7],[4,5],[4,8],[4,9],[10,4],[10,9]]
Output: [[1,2,10],[4,5,7,8]]
Explanation:
Players 1, 2, and 10 have not lost any matches.
Players 4, 5, 7, and 8 each have lost one match.
Players 3, 6, and 9 each have lost two matches.
Thus, answer[0] = [1,2,10] and answer[1] = [4,5,7,8].

Example 2:

Input: matches = [[2,3],[1,3],[5,4],[6,4]]
Output: [[1,2,5,6],[]]
Explanation:
Players 1, 2, 5, and 6 have not lost any matches.
Players 3 and 4 each have lost two matches.
Thus, answer[0] = [1,2,5,6] and answer[1] = [].

Constraints:

  • 1 <= matches.length <= 105
  • matches[i].length == 2
  • 1 <= winneri, loseri <= 105
  • winneri != loseri
  • All matches[i] are unique.

Approach

  1. Iterate through all the matches record, and put into the win/lose hash maps.
  2. Filter out the players that never lose (Not in lose map).
  3. Filter out the players that lost exactly once (Value = 1 in map).
  4. Sort results and return.

Solution

class Solution {
public:
vector<vector<int>> findWinners(vector<vector<int>>& matches) {
unordered_map<int, int> win;
unordered_map<int, int> lose;
vector<int> wResp;
vector<int> lResp;

for(auto m: matches){
win[m[0]]++;
lose[m[1]]++;
}

for(auto w: win){
if(w.first && !lose[w.first]) wResp.push_back(w.first);
}

for(auto l: lose){
if (l.second == 1) lResp.push_back(l.first);
}

sort(wResp.begin(),wResp.end());
sort(lResp.begin(),lResp.end());

return {wResp,lResp};
}
};
func findWinners(matches [][]int) [][]int {
win := make(map[int]int)
lose := make(map[int]int)

winResp := []int{}
loseResp := []int{}

for _, m := range matches{
win[m[0]]++
lose[m[1]]++
}

for k, m := range win{
if _, exists := lose[k]; !exists && m > 0{
winResp = append(winResp,k)
}
}

for k, m := range lose{
if m == 1{
loseResp = append(loseResp,k)
}
}

sort.Ints(winResp)
sort.Ints(loseResp)

return [][]int{winResp,loseResp}
}