This is about yesterday's Div2 contest Problem B. For reference, here's my code which got RE on system test 7. Finally, I fixed my code and got AC. Read the blunder I made. I hope you people handle it elegantly the next time you encounter this. Pay attention to the last part of the code which includes the two for loops.
The problem here is while outputting the answer, I write the loop's end condition as i < o.size()-1
and i < e.size()-1
. Now, this works fine when the vector isn't empty but when the vector is empty, size() returns an unsigned 0 and when I subtract 1 from it, like this i < e.size()-1
, I get a huge number instead of -1 which I expected I'd get. The loop runs for quite a long time instead of never running at all.
Now, to fix this there are 2 ways you can do so.
- Typecast the returned value into int like this
(int)(e.size()-1)
. - Store this returned value from size method into a variable like this
int sz = e.size()
.
Here's my working code showing both the methods.
I felt like a dumbo after RE on system tests, fixed it, and then thought to inform you all guys (my first blog).