Problem Link : https://uva.onlinejudge.org/index.php?option=com_onlinejudge&Itemid=8&category=24&page=show_problem&problem=4060
Solution Idea: Concatenate the input string with itself and find the suffix array. Answer will be the smallest string in suffix array which lie between index 0 to n-1 and which index is smaller.
#include <bits/stdc++.h> #define pii pair <int,int> #define pll pair <long long,long long> #define sc scanf #define pf printf #define Pi 2*acos(0.0) #define ms(a,b) memset(a, b, sizeof(a)) #define pb(a) push_back(a) #define MP make_pair #define db double #define ll long long #define EPS 10E-10 #define ff first #define ss second #define sqr(x) (x)*(x) #define D(x) cout<<#x " = "<<(x)<<endl #define VI vector <int> #define DBG pf("Hi\n") #define MOD 1000000007 #define CIN ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0) #define SZ(a) (int)a.size() #define sf(a) scanf("%d",&a) #define sfl(a) scanf("%lld",&a) #define sff(a,b) scanf("%d %d",&a,&b) #define sffl(a,b) scanf("%lld %lld",&a,&b) #define sfff(a,b,c) scanf("%d %d %d",&a,&b,&c) #define sfffl(a,b,c) scanf("%lld %lld %lld",&a,&b,&c) #define stlloop(v) for(__typeof(v.begin()) it=v.begin();it!=v.end();it++) #define loop(i,n) for(int i=0;i<n;i++) #define loop1(i,n) for(int i=1;i<=n;i++) #define REP(i,a,b) for(int i=a;i<b;i++) #define RREP(i,a,b) for(int i=a;i>=b;i--) #define TEST_CASE(t) for(int z=1;z<=t;z++) #define PRINT_CASE printf("Case %d: ",z) #define LINE_PRINT_CASE printf("Case %d:\n",z) #define CASE_PRINT cout<<"Case "<<z<<": " #define all(a) a.begin(),a.end() #define intlim 2147483648 #define infinity (1<<28) #define ull unsigned long long #define gcd(a, b) __gcd(a, b) #define lcm(a, b) ((a)*((b)/gcd(a,b))) using namespace std; /*----------------------Graph Moves----------------*/ //const int fx[]={+1,-1,+0,+0}; //const int fy[]={+0,+0,+1,-1}; //const int fx[]={+0,+0,+1,-1,-1,+1,-1,+1}; // Kings Move //const int fy[]={-1,+1,+0,+0,+1,+1,-1,-1}; // Kings Move //const int fx[]={-2, -2, -1, -1, 1, 1, 2, 2}; // Knights Move //const int fy[]={-1, 1, -2, 2, -2, 2, -1, 1}; // Knights Move /*------------------------------------------------*/ /*-----------------------Bitmask------------------*/ //int Set(int N,int pos){return N=N | (1<<pos);} //int reset(int N,int pos){return N= N & ~(1<<pos);} //bool check(int N,int pos){return (bool)(N & (1<<pos));} /*------------------------------------------------*/ char ara[100005]; struct data { pii rank; int pos; }; bool cmp(data a, data b) { return a.rank<b.rank; } int suffix_ara[200005]; int position[200005]; int main() { // freopen("in.txt","r",stdin); // freopen("out.txt","w",stdout); int t; sf(t); TEST_CASE(t) { int n; sf(n); getchar(); gets(ara); string str=ara; str+=str; n*=2; for(int i=0;i<n;i++) { position[i]=str[i]-'a'; } for(int steep=1;steep<n;steep*=2) { vector<data>v(n); for(int i=0;i<n;i++) { int a=position[i]; int b; if(i+steep>=n) b=100000000; else b=position[i+steep]; v[i].rank=pii(a,b); v[i].pos=i; } sort(all(v),cmp); position[v[0].pos]=0; suffix_ara[0]=v[0].pos; for(int i=1;i<n;i++) { suffix_ara[i]=v[i].pos; if(v[i].rank==v[i-1].rank) position[v[i].pos]=position[v[i-1].pos]; else position[v[i].pos]=i; } } for(int i=0;i<n;i++) { if(suffix_ara[i]<n/2) { pf("%d\n",suffix_ara[i]); // pf("%s\n",str.substr(suffix_ara[i]).c_str()); break; } } } return 0; }