Lesson 5 – Stacks and Queues – Fish demo task solution code written in php. Gives 100/100 score at the time of publishing. The description of the problem is copyrighted, so please see the following link for it: //codility.com/demo/take-sample-test/fish
Solution in php:
function solution($A, $B) {
$alive_count = 0;
$downstream = array();
$downstream_count = 0;
$cnt = count($A);
for($i = 0; $i < $cnt; $i++){
if($B[$i] == 1){
$downstream[] = $A[$i];
$downstream_count++;
}
else{
while($downstream_count != 0){
if($downstream[count($downstream) - 1] < $A[$i]){
$downstream_count--;
array_pop($downstream);
}
else{
break;
}
}
if($downstream_count == 0){
$alive_count++;
}
}
}
$alive_count += count($downstream);
return $alive_count;
}
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