Amazon Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers






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Put each line to a list and use sort() and unique()

- FooBar May 23, 2008 | Flag Reply
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If in unix,
sort filename.txt | uniq -c

- Anonymous May 26, 2008 | Flag Reply
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wat if doesn't fit into memory??

- kaka September 18, 2008 | Flag Reply
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One other way would be to use a string hashing algorithm on the lines of the files and then keeping the resulting hash values inside a map (or dictionary) to their line numbers. Whenever we encounter one of the hashes we stored in map before, we can get the associated line number and return it along with the current line number.

- oa October 14, 2009 | Flag Reply


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