[Leet Code] Rings and Rods

Leetcode: https://leetcode.com/problems/rings-and-rods/

Problem:

There are n rings and each ring is either red, green, or blue. The rings are distributed across ten rods labeled from 0 to 9.

You are given a string rings of length 2n that describes the n rings that are placed onto the rods. Every two characters in rings forms a color-position pair that is used to describe each ring where:

• The first character of the ith pair denotes the ith ring's color ('R', 'G', 'B').
• The second character of the ith pair denotes the rod that the ith ring is placed on ('0' to '9').

For example, "R3G2B1" describes n == 3 rings: a red ring placed onto the rod labeled 3, a green ring placed onto the rod labeled 2, and a blue ring placed onto the rod labeled 1.

Return the number of rods that have all three colors of rings on them.

Example 1:

Input: rings = "B0B6G0R6R0R6G9"
Output: 1
Explanation: 
- The rod labeled 0 holds 3 rings with all colors: red, green, and blue.
- The rod labeled 6 holds 3 rings, but it only has red and blue.
- The rod labeled 9 holds only a green ring.
Thus, the number of rods with all three colors is 1.

Example 2:

Input: rings = "B0R0G0R9R0B0G0"
Output: 1
Explanation: 
- The rod labeled 0 holds 6 rings with all colors: red, green, and blue.
- The rod labeled 9 holds only a red ring.
Thus, the number of rods with all three colors is 1.

Example 3:

Input: rings = "G4"
Output: 0
Explanation: 
Only one ring is given. Thus, no rods have all three colors.

Constraints:

• rings.length == 2 * n
• 1 <= n <= 100
• rings[i] where i is even is either 'R', 'G', or 'B' (0-indexed).
• rings[i] where i is odd is a digit from '0' to '9' (0-indexed).

Solution:

func countPoints(rings string) int {
    hashMap := make(map[string][]string)
    counter := 0
    for i := 0; i < len(rings); i+= 2{
        letter := string(rings[i])
        number := string(rings[i+1])
        hashMap[number] = append(hashMap[number], letter)
    }
    fmt.Println(hashMap)
    for number := range hashMap{
        if len(unique(hashMap[number])) == 3{
            counter += 1
        }
    }
    return counter
}
func unique(intSlice []string) []string {
    keys := make(map[string]bool)
    list := []string{} 
    for _, entry := range intSlice {
        if _, value := keys[entry]; !value {
            keys[entry] = true
            list = append(list, entry)
        }
    }    
    return list
}