License Key Formatting

You are given a license key represented as a string S which consists only alphanumeric character and dashes. The string is separated into N+1 groups by N dashes.

Given a number K, we would want to reformat the strings such that each group contains exactly K characters, except for the first group which could be shorter than K, but still must contain at least one character. Furthermore, there must be a dash inserted between two groups and all lowercase letters should be converted to uppercase.

Given a non-empty string S and a number K, format the string according to the rules described above.

Example 1:

Input: S = "5F3Z-2e-9-w", K = 4

Output: "5F3Z-2E9W"

Explanation: The string S has been split into two parts, each part has 4 characters.
Note that the two extra dashes are not needed and can be removed.


Example 2:

Input: S = "2-5g-3-J", K = 2

Output: "2-5G-3J"

Explanation: The string S has been split into three parts, each part has 2 characters except the first part as it could be shorter as mentioned above.


Note:

  1. The length of string S will not exceed 12,000, and K is a positive integer.
  2. String S consists only of alphanumerical characters (a-z and/or A-Z and/or 0-9) and dashes(-).
  3. String S is non-empty.

Solution:

class Solution {
    public String licenseKeyFormatting(String S, int K) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        StringBuilder curr = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = S.length() - 1; i >= 0; i --) {
            char c = Character.toUpperCase(S.charAt(i));
            if (c == '-') continue;
            if (curr.length() == K) {
                sb.append(curr);
                sb.append("-");
                curr.setLength(0);
            } 
            curr.append(c);
        }
        sb.append(curr);
        return sb.reverse().toString();
    }
}