Hackerrank - Designer PDF Viewer Solution

# Hackerrank - Designer PDF Viewer Solution

When you select a contiguous block of text in a PDF viewer, the selection is highlighted with a blue rectangle. In this PDF viewer, each word is highlighted independently. For example:

In this challenge, you will be given a list of letter heights in the alphabet and a string. Using the letter heights given, determine the area of the rectangle highlight in  assuming all letters are  wide.

For example, the highlighted . Assume the heights of the letters are  and . The tallest letter is  high and there are  letters. The hightlighted area will be  so the answer is .

Function Description

Complete the designerPdfViewer function in the editor below. It should return an integer representing the size of the highlighted area.

designerPdfViewer has the following parameter(s):

• h: an array of integers representing the heights of each letter
• word: a string

Input Format

The first line contains  space-separated integers describing the respective heights of each consecutive lowercase English letter, ascii[a-z].
The second line contains a single word, consisting of lowercase English alphabetic letters.

Constraints

• , where  is an English lowercase letter.
• contains no more than  letters.

Output Format

Print a single integer denoting the area in  of highlighted rectangle when the given word is selected. Do not print units of measure.

Sample Input 0

1 3 1 3 1 4 1 3 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
abc

Sample Output 0

9

Explanation 0

We are highlighting the word abc:

Letter heights are ,  and . The tallest letter, b, is  high. The selection area for this word is .

Note: Recall that the width of each character is .

Sample Input 1

1 3 1 3 1 4 1 3 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 7
zaba

Sample Output 1

28

Explanation 1

The tallest letter in  is  at . The selection area for this word is .

### Solution in Python

def designerPdfViewer(h, word):
return max([h[ord(i)-97] for i in word])*len(word)
h = list(map(int,input().split()))
word = input()
print(designerPdfViewer(h, word))