Finish problem 1898-maximum-number-of-removable-characters

problems/1898-maximum-number-of-removable-characters/solution.py

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+def p_still_in_s(s: str, p: str, removable: list[int], chars_removed: int) -> bool:
+    removed = set(removable[:chars_removed])
+    p_index = 0
+    for i, char in enumerate(s):
+        if i in removed:
+            continue
+        if p_index < len(p) and char == p[p_index]:
+            p_index += 1
+
+    return p_index == len(p)
+
+
+class Solution:
+    def maximumRemovals(self, s: str, p: str, removable: list[int]) -> int:
+        lo, hi = 0, len(removable)
+        while lo < hi:
+            chars_removed = (lo + hi + 1) // 2
+            if p_still_in_s(s, p, removable, chars_removed):
+                lo = chars_removed
+            else:
+                hi = chars_removed - 1
+        return lo