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(object):
def canConstruct(self, ransomNote, magazine):
"""
:type ransomNote: str
:type magazine: str
:rtype: bool
"""
# hash cnt
# sort merge
s = collections.Counter(magazine)
for c in ransomNote:
if c in s and s[c]>0:
s[c] -= 1
else:
return False
return True
排序,类似归并思路
class Solution(object):
def canConstruct(self, ransomNote, magazine):
"""
:type ransomNote: str
:type magazine: str
:rtype: bool
"""
# hash cnt
# sort merge
r = sorted(ransomNote)
m = sorted(magazine)
i = j = 0
while i<len(r) and j<len(m):
if r[i] == m[j]:
i += 1
j += 1
else:
j += 1
return i==len(r)