Smallest String with Swaps

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AlgoAxiomStaff Engineers
JSTS
Medium20 mins

You are given a string s, and an array of pairs of indices in the string pairs where pairs[i] = [a, b] indicates 2 indices (0-indexed) of the string.

You can swap the characters at any pair of indices in the given pairs any number of times.

Return the lexicographically smallest string that s can be changed to after using the swaps.

Examples

Example 1:

Input: s = "dcab", pairs = [[0,3],[1,2]]

Output: "bacd"

Explanation: Swap s[0] and s[3] → "bcad". Swap s[1] and s[2] → "bacd".

Example 2:

Input: s = "dcab", pairs = [[0,3],[1,2],[0,2]]

Output: "abcd"

Explanation: Swap s[0] and s[3] → "bcad". Swap s[0] and s[2] → "acbd". Swap s[1] and s[2] → "abcd".

Example 3:

Input: s = "cba", pairs = [[0,1],[1,2]]

Output: "abc"

Explanation: Swap s[0] and s[1] → "bca". Swap s[1] and s[2] → "bac". Swap s[0] and s[1] → "abc".

Constraints

  • 1 <= s.length <= 10^5
  • 0 <= pairs.length <= 10^5
  • 0 <= pairs[i][0], pairs[i][1] < s.length
  • s only contains lowercase English letters
Source: Union Find pattern — AlgoAxiom
JavaScript
Test Case 1
root = [1, 2, 3]
Test Case 2
root = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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