Description
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
O(n) bucket sort in Java
No brainer solution.
public class Solution {
public boolean canConstruct(String ransomNote, String magazine) {
int[] bucket = new int[26];
for (int i=0; i<magazine.length(); i++) {
bucket[magazine.charAt(i)-'a']++;
}
for (int i=0; i<ransomNote.length(); i++) {
if (bucket[ransomNote.charAt(i)-'a'] == 0) {
return false;
}
bucket[ransomNote.charAt(i)-'a']--;
}
return true;
}
}
Runtime: 21ms