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
public class Solution { public boolean canConstruct(String ransomNote, String magazine) { int[] arr = new int[26]; for(int i=0;i<magazine.length();i++) { char c = magazine.charAt(i); arr[c-'a']++; } for(int i=0;i<ransomNote.length();i++) { char c = ransomNote.charAt(i); arr[c-'a']--; if(arr[c-'a']<0) return false; } return true; } }
reference:
https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/53864/java-o-n-solution-easy-to-understand/3