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Abhishek Chaudhary
Abhishek Chaudhary

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Valid Anagram

Given two strings s and t, return true if t is an anagram of s, and false otherwise.

An Anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once.

Example 1:

Input: s = "anagram", t = "nagaram"
Output: true

Example 2:

Input: s = "rat", t = "car"
Output: false

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length, t.length <= 5 * 104
  • s and t consist of lowercase English letters.

Follow up: What if the inputs contain Unicode characters? How would you adapt your solution to such a case?

SOLUTION:

class Solution:
    def isAnagram(self, s: str, t: str) -> bool:
        ctr = {}
        for c in s:
            ctr[c] = ctr.get(c, 0) + 1
        for c in t:
            if c in ctr:
                ctr[c] -= 1
            else:
                return False
        for val in ctr.values():
            if val != 0:
                return False
        return True
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