Leetcode 415. Add Strings

Gary Chiang
1 min readAug 9, 2021

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[easy]

Given two non-negative integers, num1 and num2 represented as string, return the sum of num1 and num2 as a string.

You must solve the problem without using any built-in library for handling large integers (such as BigInteger). You must also not convert the inputs to integers directly.

Example 1:

Input: num1 = "11", num2 = "123"
Output: "134"

Example 2:

Input: num1 = "456", num2 = "77"
Output: "533"

Example 3:

Input: num1 = "0", num2 = "0"
Output: "0"

Constraints:

  • 1 <= num1.length, num2.length <= 104
  • num1 and num2 consist of only digits.
  • num1 and num2 don't have any leading zeros except for the zero itself.

[Java]

  1. start on last digit, and move forward until the first digit
  2. use stringbuilder to adjust the string
  3. don’t forget to “s.charAt(i)- ‘0'”
  4. trick: using two variable in the for loop

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Gary Chiang
Gary Chiang

Written by Gary Chiang

CS new grad, 6 years experience related to supply chain management. Located in Bay area

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