3582. Generate Tag for Video Caption
Problem Description
You are given a string caption
representing the caption for a video.
The following actions must be performed in order to generate a valid tag for the video:
- Combine all words in the string into a single camelCase string prefixed with
'#'
. A camelCase string is one where the first letter of all words except the first one is capitalized. All characters after the first character in each word must be lowercase. - Remove all characters that are not an English letter, except the first
'#'
. - Truncate the result to a maximum of 100 characters.
Return the tag after performing the actions on caption
.
Intuition
To create a valid tag, it's important to follow each step in the order described. First, since we need camelCase form, we should split the caption into words and format them: make the first word all lowercase, and make each following word start with a capital letter. Then, since only English letters and the first #
are allowed, we must remove any non-letter symbols from the concatenated string. Finally, because there's a limit of 100 characters, it's necessary to ensure the final result doesn't exceed this limit. Each of these requirements can be addressed individually and simply, making the problem mainly one of string processing and step-by-step transformation.
Solution Approach
The solution involves a straightforward simulation of each step described in the problem:
-
Splitting and Formatting the Words:
- Use
caption.split()
to divide the input string into words. - For each word after splitting:
- Capitalize the first letter and make the rest lowercase using
word.capitalize()
. - For the first word, override this capitalization by making all letters lowercase, as required for camelCase.
- Capitalize the first letter and make the rest lowercase using
- Use
-
Combining Words and Adding Prefix:
- Join all processed words together without spaces using
"".join(words)
. - Add the
#
prefix at the start by concatenating"#" + ..."
.
- Join all processed words together without spaces using
-
Removing Non-Letter Characters:
- After combining, loop through the characters of the result, keep only alphabetical letters (using
c.isalpha()
), but always retain the initial'#'
. - Build the new string by iterating over each character and checking if it should be included.
- After combining, loop through the characters of the result, keep only alphabetical letters (using
-
Truncating to 100 Characters:
- The final string is sliced using
[:100]
to ensure it doesn't exceed 100 characters, as required.
- The final string is sliced using
The main tools used here are string splitting and manipulation, as well as list and string operations. The code leverages Python's string methods and list comprehensions for clean, readable processing.
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Start EvaluatorExample Walkthrough
Let's use the caption: "Summer 2024! Ready-Set Go?"
Step 1: Split and Format Words
- Split into words:
["Summer", "2024!", "Ready-Set", "Go?"]
- Format for camelCase:
- First word:
"summer"
(all lowercase) - Remaining words:
"2024!"
→"2024!"
(capitalize has no effect),"Ready-Set"
→"Ready-set"
,"Go?"
→"Go?"
- First word:
- Combined formatting:
["summer", "2024!", "Ready-set", "Go?"]
Step 2: Combine and Prefix
- Concatenate without spaces:
"summer2024!Ready-setGo?"
- Add prefix:
"#summer2024!Ready-setGo?"
Step 3: Remove Non-Letter Characters (besides the first #
)
- Go through each character, keep only the leading
'#'
and letters:- Result:
"#summerReadysetGo"
- ("2024!", "-", and "?" are all removed as non-letter characters.)
- Result:
Step 4: Truncate to 100 Characters
- Current length: 18, which is less than 100.
- Final result:
"#summerReadysetGo"
So, for the caption "Summer 2024! Ready-Set Go?"
, the generated tag is:
#summerReadysetGo
Solution Implementation
1class Solution:
2 def generateTag(self, caption: str) -> str:
3 # Split the caption into individual words and capitalize each word
4 words = [word.capitalize() for word in caption.split()]
5
6 # Ensure the first word starts with a lowercase letter
7 if words:
8 words[0] = words[0].lower()
9
10 # Concatenate all words to form a tag and prefix with '#'
11 tag = "#" + "".join(words)
12
13 # Limit the resulting tag to a maximum of 99 characters
14 return tag[:99]
15
1class Solution {
2 /**
3 * Generates a tag from the given caption in hashtag style.
4 * The first word is in lowercase, subsequent words are capitalized.
5 * The result is prefixed with '#', and output is limited to 100 characters.
6 *
7 * @param caption the input string to generate the tag from
8 * @return the formatted tag string
9 */
10 public String generateTag(String caption) {
11 // Trim the caption and split it into words using whitespace as delimiter
12 String[] words = caption.trim().split("\\s+");
13 // Initialize a StringBuilder with the hashtag prefix
14 StringBuilder tagBuilder = new StringBuilder("#");
15
16 // Iterate through the split words
17 for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
18 String word = words[i];
19 // Skip empty words (caused by consecutive spaces)
20 if (word.isEmpty()) {
21 continue;
22 }
23
24 // Convert word to lowercase
25 word = word.toLowerCase();
26 if (i == 0) {
27 // First word remains fully in lowercase
28 tagBuilder.append(word);
29 } else {
30 // Capitalize the first letter, leave the rest in lowercase
31 tagBuilder.append(Character.toUpperCase(word.charAt(0)));
32 if (word.length() > 1) {
33 tagBuilder.append(word.substring(1));
34 }
35 }
36
37 // If we've reached or exceeded the length cap, stop processing further words
38 if (tagBuilder.length() >= 100) {
39 break;
40 }
41 }
42
43 // Ensure the final tag does not exceed 100 characters
44 return tagBuilder.length() > 100 ? tagBuilder.substring(0, 100) : tagBuilder.toString();
45 }
46}
47
1class Solution {
2public:
3 // Generates a tag from the input caption.
4 string generateTag(string caption) {
5 istringstream input_stream(caption); // To split words by spaces
6 string word;
7 ostringstream tag; // To build the result hashtag
8 tag << "#";
9
10 bool isFirstWord = true; // To track the first word for lowercase
11 while (input_stream >> word) {
12 // Convert word to lowercase
13 transform(word.begin(), word.end(), word.begin(), ::tolower);
14
15 if (isFirstWord) {
16 tag << word;
17 isFirstWord = false;
18 } else {
19 // Capitalize first letter for subsequent words (CamelCase)
20 word[0] = toupper(word[0]);
21 tag << word;
22 }
23
24 // If the tag length has reached or exceeded 100, exit loop
25 if (tag.str().length() >= 100) {
26 break;
27 }
28 }
29
30 string result = tag.str();
31 // Ensure the tag does not exceed 100 characters in length
32 if (result.length() > 100) {
33 result = result.substr(0, 100);
34 }
35 return result;
36 }
37};
38
1/**
2 * Converts a caption into a single camel-cased hashtag string.
3 * Words are concatenated together with the first word in lowercase,
4 * subsequent words capitalized, and prefixed with '#'.
5 * Maximum length of result is 100 characters (including the '#').
6 *
7 * @param caption - The input string to be converted.
8 * @returns The generated hashtag string.
9 */
10function generateTag(caption: string): string {
11 // Split caption into an array of non-empty words
12 const words: string[] = caption.trim().split(/\s+/);
13
14 // Initialize the result with '#'
15 let result: string = '#';
16
17 for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
18 // Convert current word to lowercase
19 const word: string = words[i].toLowerCase();
20
21 // Add the word to result, capitalizing first letter if not the first word
22 if (i === 0) {
23 result += word;
24 } else {
25 result += word.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + word.slice(1);
26 }
27
28 // Truncate the result to 100 characters if necessary
29 if (result.length >= 100) {
30 result = result.slice(0, 100);
31 break;
32 }
33 }
34
35 return result;
36}
37
Time and Space Complexity
The time complexity is O(n)
, and the space complexity is O(n)
, where n
is the length of the caption
string.
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