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Saturday, May 14, 2016

Codility binary gap solution C#

Codility binary gap solution C#

Find longest sequence of zeros in binary representation of an integer.
Solution:
        public int GetBinaryGap(int N)
        {
            string binaryValue = Convert.ToString(N, 2);

            int longestBinaryGap = 0;
            int binaryGapLenght = 0;
            for (int i = 1; i < binaryValue.Length; i++)
            {
                if (binaryValue[i - 1] == '1' && binaryValue[i] == '0')
                {
                    binaryGapLenght = 1;
                }
                else if (binaryValue[i - 1] == '0' && binaryValue[i] == '0')
                {
                    binaryGapLenght++;
                }
                else if (binaryValue[i - 1] == '0' && binaryValue[i] == '1')
                {
                    longestBinaryGap = Math.Max(longestBinaryGap, binaryGapLenght);
                }
            }

            return longestBinaryGap;
        } 

      By submitting this answer to codility I got 100% Marks.



3 comments:

  1. Not sure how but this looks to be incorrect.

    public static int GetLongestSequence(int N)
    {
    string binary = Convert.ToString(N, 2);
    Console.WriteLine("Method 2");
    int longest = 0,current = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < binary.Length; i++)
    {
    if (binary[i] == '0')
    {
    if (longest == current) longest++;
    current++;
    }
    else
    {
    current = 0;
    }
    }

    return longest;
    }

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    1. @Ravi mittal - I have tested this in codility and got 100%.

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    2. It is correct if you ignore the last sequence of 0s, which wasn't mentioned in your post.. I checked the full question on Codality and it is the correct solution.

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