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You are given a 0-indexed string street
. Each character in street
is either 'H'
representing a house or '.'
representing an empty space.
You can place buckets on the empty spaces to collect rainwater that falls from the adjacent houses. The rainwater from a house at index i
is collected if a bucket is placed at index i - 1
and/or index i + 1
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Return the minimum number of buckets needed so that for every house, there is at least one bucket collecting rainwater from it, or -1
if it is impossible.
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Example 1:
\n\n\nInput: street = "H..H"\nOutput: 2\nExplanation:\nWe can put buckets at index 1 and index 2.\n"H..H" -> "HBBH" ('B' denotes where a bucket is placed).\nThe house at index 0 has a bucket to its right, and the house at index 3 has a bucket to its left.\nThus, for every house, there is at least one bucket collecting rainwater from it.\n\n\n
Example 2:
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Example 3:
\n\n\nInput: street = ".HHH."\nOutput: -1\nExplanation:\nThere is no empty space to place a bucket to collect the rainwater from the house at index 2.\nThus, it is impossible to collect the rainwater from all the houses.\n\n\n
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Constraints:
\n\n1 <= street.length <= 105
street[i]
is either'H'
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