java codility training Genomic-range-query

Question

The task is:

A non-empty zero-indexed string S is given. String S consists of N characters from the set of upper-case English letters A, C, G, T.

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Answer 1

Here is the solution, supposing someone is still interested.

class Solution {
        public int[] solution(String S, int[] P, int[] Q) {
            int[] answer = new int[P.length];
            char[] chars = S.toCharArray();
            int[][] cumulativeAnswers = new int[4][chars.length + 1];

            for (int iii = 0; iii < chars.length; iii++) {
                if (iii > 0) {
                    for (int zzz = 0; zzz < 4; zzz++) {
                        cumulativeAnswers[zzz][iii + 1] = cumulativeAnswers[zzz][iii];
                    }
                }

                switch (chars[iii]) {
                    case 'A':
                        cumulativeAnswers[0][iii + 1]++;
                        break;
                    case 'C':
                        cumulativeAnswers[1][iii + 1]++;
                        break;
                    case 'G':
                        cumulativeAnswers[2][iii + 1]++;
                        break;
                    case 'T':
                        cumulativeAnswers[3][iii + 1]++;
                        break;
                }
            }

            for (int iii = 0; iii < P.length; iii++) {
                for (int zzz = 0; zzz < 4; zzz++) {

                    if ((cumulativeAnswers[zzz][Q[iii] + 1] - cumulativeAnswers[zzz][P[iii]]) > 0) {
                        answer[iii] = zzz + 1;
                        break;
                    }

                }
            }

            return answer;
        }
    }