Given an arbitrary ransom note string and another string containing letters from all the magazines, write a function that will return true if the ransom
note can be constructed from the magazines ; otherwise, it will return false.
Each letter in the magazine string can only be used once in your ransom note.
Note:
You may assume that both strings contain only lowercase letters.
canConstruct("a", "b") -> false canConstruct("aa", "ab") -> false canConstruct("aa", "aab") -> true
class Solution:
def canConstruct(self, ransomNote: str, magazine: str) -> bool:
chars = {}
for i in magazine:
chars[i] = chars.get(i, 0) + 1
for i in ransomNote:
if not chars.get(i):
return False
chars[i] -= 1
return True
class Solution {
public boolean canConstruct(String ransomNote, String magazine) {
int[] chars = new int[26];
for (int i = 0, n = magazine.length(); i < n; ++i) {
int idx = magazine.charAt(i) - 'a';
++chars[idx];
}
for (int i = 0, n = ransomNote.length(); i < n; ++i) {
int idx = ransomNote.charAt(i) - 'a';
if (chars[idx] == 0) return false;
--chars[idx];
}
return true;
}
}