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Contiguous Subarray and Frequency Order
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Contiguous Subarray and Frequency Order

MediumPython

Problem

DP World processes numeric container-handling measurements and character-based event labels. Given an integer array and a string, find the largest sum of any non-empty contiguous subarray and list every character's frequency in the order that character first appears.

Formal Specification

Implement max_subarray_and_frequencies(nums, text).

  • nums is a non-empty list of integers.
  • text is a string containing printable characters. Every character, including spaces and punctuation, must be counted.
  • Return a dictionary with:
    • max_sum: the maximum sum of a non-empty contiguous subarray of nums.
    • frequencies: a list of two-element lists, where each element is [character, count], ordered by first occurrence in text.
  • If multiple subarrays have the same maximum sum, only the sum is required, so their positions do not need to be returned.

Constraints

  • 1 <= len(nums) <= 100000
  • -10^9 <= nums[i] <= 10^9
  • 0 <= len(text) <= 100000
  • The input string may contain spaces and punctuation
  • Character matching is case-sensitive

Function Signature

def max_subarray_and_frequencies(nums, text):
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