LeetCode-in-Cpp

42. Trapping Rain Water

Hard

Given n non-negative integers representing an elevation map where the width of each bar is 1, compute how much water it can trap after raining.

Example 1:

Input: height = [0,1,0,2,1,0,1,3,2,1,2,1]

Output: 6

Explanation: The above elevation map (black section) is represented by array [0,1,0,2,1,0,1,3,2,1,2,1]. In this case, 6 units of rain water (blue section) are being trapped.

Example 2:

Input: height = [4,2,0,3,2,5]

Output: 9

Constraints:

Solution

#include <vector>
using namespace std;

class Solution {
public:
    int trap(vector<int>& height) {
        int l = 0;
        int r = height.size() - 1;
        int res = 0;
        int lowerWall = 0;
        while (l < r) {
            int lVal = height[l];
            int rVal = height[r];
            if (lVal < rVal) {
                lowerWall = max(lVal, lowerWall);
                res += lowerWall - lVal;
                l++;
            } else {
                lowerWall = max(rVal, lowerWall);
                res += lowerWall - rVal;
                r--;
            }
        }
        return res;
    }
};