Valid Anagram

Problem Statement

Given two strings s and t, return true if t is an anagram of s, and false otherwise.

An Anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once.

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Example 1:

Input: s = "anagram", t = "nagaram" Output: true

Example 2:

Input: s = "rat", t = "car" Output: false

Code - Approach 1

Python Code

class Solution:
    def isAnagram(self, s: str, t: str) -> bool:
        s=list(s)
        if len(t)!=len(s):
            return False
        for c in t:
            if c in s:
                s.remove(c)
        if len(s)==0:
            return True
        else:
            return False

Code - Approach 2 (Hashmap)

Python Code

class Solution:
    def isAnagram(self, s: str, t: str) -> bool:
        if len(s)!=len(t):
            return False
        countS,countT={},{}

        for i in range(len(s)):
            countS[s[i]]=1+countS.get(s[i],0)
            countT[t[i]]=1+countT.get(t[i],0)
        for ch in countS:
            if countS[ch]!=countT.get(ch,0):
                return False
        return True


    # the get function prevents Python from throwing a KeyError when a key
    # is not present in the map, it returns 0 instead