1182. Shortest Distance to Target Color

https://leetcode.com/problems/shortest-distance-to-target-color

Description

You are given an array colors, in which there are three colors: 1, 2 and 3.

You are also given some queries. Each query consists of two integers i and c, return the shortest distance between the given index i and the target color c. If there is no solution return -1.

Example 1:

**Input:** colors = [1,1,2,1,3,2,2,3,3], queries = [[1,3],[2,2],[6,1]]
**Output:** [3,0,3]
**Explanation:** 
The nearest 3 from index 1 is at index 4 (3 steps away).
The nearest 2 from index 2 is at index 2 itself (0 steps away).
The nearest 1 from index 6 is at index 3 (3 steps away).

Example 2:

**Input:** colors = [1,2], queries = [[0,3]]
**Output:** [-1]
**Explanation:** There is no 3 in the array.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= colors.length <= 5*10^4

  • 1 <= colors[i] <= 3

  • 1 <= queries.length <= 5*10^4

  • queries[i].length == 2

  • 0 <= queries[i][0] < colors.length

  • 1 <= queries[i][1] <= 3

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