Flip String to Monotone Increasing

A string of '0's and '1's is monotone increasing if it consists of some number of '0's (possibly 0), followed by some number of '1's (also possibly 0.)

We are given a string S of '0's and '1's, and we may flip any '0' to a '1' or a '1' to a '0'.

Return the minimum number of flips to make S monotone increasing.

 

Example 1:

Input: "00110"
Output: 1
Explanation: We flip the last digit to get 00111.

Example 2:

Input: "010110"
Output: 2
Explanation: We flip to get 011111, or alternatively 000111.

Example 3:

Input: "00011000"
Output: 2
Explanation: We flip to get 00000000.

 

Note:

  1. 1 <= S.length <= 20000
  2. S only consists of '0' and '1' characters.

Solution:

class Solution {
    public int minFlipsMonoIncr(String S) {
        int n = S.length();
        int[][] dp = new int[n + 1][2];
        for (int i = 1; i <= n; i ++) {
            int curr = S.charAt(i - 1) - '0';
            if (curr == 0) {
                dp[i][0] = dp[i - 1][0];
                dp[i][1] = Math.min(dp[i - 1][0], dp[i - 1][1]) + 1;
            } else {
                dp[i][1] = Math.min(dp[i - 1][1], dp[i - 1][0]);
                dp[i][0] = dp[i - 1][0] + 1;
            }
        }
        return Math.min(dp[n][0], dp[n][1]);
    }
}