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Retry with an Attempt Limit

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Problem statement

Simulate a callable whose ordered outcomes are provided in outcomes. Each entry is either FAILURE or SUCCESS:value.

Invoke outcomes from left to right, using at most maxAttempts total attempts. Stop at the first success and return SUCCESS:value|attempts. If every permitted attempt fails, return FAILED|attempts.

Function

retry(outcomes: String[], maxAttempts: int) → String

Examples

Example 1

outcomes = ["FAILURE","FAILURE","SUCCESS:ready"]maxAttempts = 3return = "SUCCESS:ready|3"

The third permitted attempt succeeds, so no later outcome is inspected.

Example 2

outcomes = ["FAILURE","SUCCESS:late"]maxAttempts = 1return = "FAILED|1"

The attempt budget is exhausted before the success.

Constraints

1 <= outcomes.length <= 100000.
1 <= maxAttempts <= outcomes.length.
Every entry is exactly FAILURE or starts with SUCCESS:.
A success value contains printable ASCII characters and may be empty.