can you please tell why are we doing rem-1 if cont==1 in a function call bcoz cont==1 means we want to continue then why will we reduce the rem value and at the same time no doing rem-1 when cont==0 bcoz that would mean that we want to terminate this subsequence now??
yes i am talking about the alyona and strings problem code written by saiyam bhaiya
We need to consider all the possible cases ,that’s why. If cont==1 , it just means that sequence was running at the index before and we didn’t reduce rem then. So we had 2 choices either to continue with the current substring (where we pass cont as 1 and don’t reduce rem) or we try to start a new sequence.
Similarly when cont==0, we have 2 choices next time, either to continue or terminate and start a new.
So cont is the state up until previous index, what was the sequence state before this index.
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