Delete Repeated Characters with Costs
You are given a lowercase alphabet string s and a list of non-negative integers costs, both of which have the same length. You can remove character s[i] for cost costs[i], after which both s[i] and costs[i] is removed.
Return the minimum cost needed to delete all consecutively repeating characters.
Constraints
n ≤ 100,000wherenis the length ofsandcosts
https://binarysearch.com/problems/Delete-Repeated-Characters-with-Costs
Examples
Example 1
Input
- s =
aabba - nums =
[1, 2, 9, 3, 5]
Output
- answer =
4
Explanation
We can remove s[0] and s[3] for a total cost of 1 + 3
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