Amazon Interview Question for Backend Developers


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Another way is stating this problem is to say whether two strings are permutations of each other. I present two solutions. One using sorting which takes O(nlogn) where n = the number of characters/letters in the given word. Other approach is to use a hash table and maintain counts of letters. If the counts match, then the target string can be formed by swapping the characters in the original string.

Elegant solutions in python:

# O(nlogn) time for sort
def canBeSwappedUsingSort(originalString, targetString):
    return sorted(originalString) == sorted(targetString)

# O(n) time
def canBeSwappedUsingHash(originalString, targetString):
    from collections import Counter
    return Counter(originalString) == Counter(targetString)

- prudent_programmer March 01, 2018 | Flag Reply
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1. First check if length of both the string is same or not.
2. traverse through target string and store the count of each char in a map/array.
3. now traverse through another string and decrement the count of the char from original store.
4. At the end if the store has a count of 0 for all the char return value true else false.

- tan March 01, 2018 | Flag Reply
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- Anonymous March 01, 2018 | Flag Reply


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