Check if the two strings have identical counts for each unique char.
public static boolean anagram(String s, String t) {
if (s.length() != t.length()) return false;
int[] letters = new int[256];
int num_unique_chars = 0;
int num_completed_t = 0;
char[] s_array = s.toCharArray();
for (char c : s_array) { // count number of each char in s.
if (letters[c] == 0) ++num_unique_chars;
++letters[c];
}
for (int i = 0; i < t.length(); ++i) {
int c = (int) t.charAt(i);
if (letters[c] == 0) { // Found more of char c in t than in s.
return false;
}
--letters[c];
if (letters[c] == 0) {
++num_completed_t;
if (num_completed_t == num_unique_chars) {
// it’s a match if t has been processed completely
return i == t.length() - 1;
}
}
}
return false;
}
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