Maximum number of vowels in a substring of given length

class Solution:
    def maxVowels(self, s: str, k: int) -> int:
        words = {'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'}
        curr = s[:k]
        count = 0

        for i in curr:
            if i in words:
                count += 1
        best = count
        for i in range(k, len(s)):
            if s[i] in words:
                count += 1
            if s[i - k] in words:
                count -= 1
            if count == k:
                return k
            best = max(best, count)
        return best

Maximum Number of Vowels in a Substring of Given Length

Difficulty: Medium


Given a string s and an integer k, return the maximum number of vowel letters in any substring of s with length k.

Vowel letters in English are 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', and 'u'.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "abciiidef", k = 3
Output: 3
Explanation: The substring "iii" contains 3 vowel letters.

Example 2:

Input: s = "aeiou", k = 2
Output: 2
Explanation: Any substring of length 2 contains 2 vowels.

Example 3:

Input: s = "leetcode", k = 3
Output: 2
Explanation: "lee", "eet" and "ode" contain 2 vowels.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 105
  • s consists of lowercase English letters.
  • 1 <= k <= s.length