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Minimum Window Substring

Find the shortest piece of text containing all required characters.

Problema

Find the shortest contiguous substring of text that contains every character of pattern, including repeats. If several are equally short, return the leftmost.

Implement min_window(text, pattern).

Input

text: The text to search. pattern: The characters that must appear.

Output

Return the shortest window, or an empty string if none exists.

Restricciones

1 ≤ length of text, pattern ≤ 100,000 (ASCII)

Ejemplos

Ejemplo 1
Entrada:
text = "ADOBECODEBANC"
pattern = "ABC"

Salida esperada:
expected = "BANC"
Entrada:
std::string text = "ADOBECODEBANC";
std::string pattern = "ABC";

Salida esperada:
std::string expected = "BANC";
Entrada:
string text = "ADOBECODEBANC";
string pattern = "ABC";

Salida esperada:
string expected = "BANC";

Explicación

"BANC" contains A, B and C and nothing shorter does.

Ejemplo 2
Entrada:
text = "a"
pattern = "aa"

Salida esperada:
expected = ""
Entrada:
std::string text = "a";
std::string pattern = "aa";

Salida esperada:
std::string expected = "";
Entrada:
string text = "a";
string pattern = "aa";

Salida esperada:
string expected = "";

Explicación

Two a's are needed but the text has only one: "".

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