题目

Note: This is an extension of House Robber.

After robbing those houses on that street, the thief has found himself a new place for his thievery so that he will not get too much attention. This time, all houses at this place are arranged in a circle. That means the first house is the neighbor of the last one. Meanwhile, the security system for these houses remain the same as for those in the previous street.

Given a list of non-negative integers representing the amount of money of each house, determine the maximum amount of money you can rob tonight without alerting the police.

题目来源：https://leetcode.com/problems/house-robber-ii/

分析

上一个题house robber的解析见：http://blog.csdn.net/u010902721/article/details/46583815

这个题在上一道题的基础上加了一个限制条件，也就是首和尾也是相邻的。那就拆开做，分别去掉第一个元素和最后一个元素后再用第一道题的方案去求解。最大值就是本题的答案。

代码

class Solution {
public:
    int rob1(vector<int>& nums, int begin, int end) {
        int size = end - begin + 1;
        if(size == 1)
            return nums[begin];
        vector<int> dp(size + 1, 0);
        dp[size-1] = nums[end];
        int ans = dp[size - 1];
        int max_next = 0;
        for(int i = end - 1; i >= begin; i--){
            dp[i - begin] = nums[i] + max_next;
            ans = max(ans, dp[i - begin]);
            max_next = max(dp[i - begin +1], max_next);
        }
        return ans;
    }
    int rob(vector<int>& nums) {
        int len = nums.size();
        if(len == 0)
            return 0;
        if(len == 1)
            return nums[0];
        return max(rob1(nums, 0, len - 2), rob1(nums, 1, len - 1));
    }
};