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49. Group Anagrams

Description

Given an array of strings strs, group the anagrams together. You can return the answer in any order.

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.

 

Example 1:

Input: strs = ["eat","tea","tan","ate","nat","bat"]
Output: [["bat"],["nat","tan"],["ate","eat","tea"]]

Example 2:

Input: strs = [""]
Output: [[""]]

Example 3:

Input: strs = ["a"]
Output: [["a"]]

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= strs.length <= 104
  • 0 <= strs[i].length <= 100
  • strs[i] consists of lowercase English letters.

Solutions

Solution 1: Hash Table

  1. Traverse the string array, sort each string in character dictionary order to get a new string.
  2. Use the new string as key and [str] as value, and store them in the hash table (HashMap<String, List<String>>).
  3. When encountering the same key during subsequent traversal, add it to the corresponding value.

Take strs = ["eat", "tea", "tan", "ate", "nat", "bat"] as an example. At the end of the traversal, the state of the hash table is:

key value
"aet" ["eat", "tea", "ate"]
"ant" ["tan", "nat"]
"abt" ["bat"]

Finally, return the value list of the hash table.

The time complexity is $O(n\times k\times \log k)$, where $n$ and $k$ are the lengths of the string array and the maximum length of the string, respectively.

Solution 2: Counting

We can also change the sorting part in Solution 1 to counting, that is, use the characters in each string $s$ and their occurrence times as key, and use the string $s$ as value to store in the hash table.

The time complexity is $O(n\times (k + C))$, where $n$ and $k$ are the lengths of the string array and the maximum length of the string, respectively, and $C$ is the size of the character set. In this problem, $C = 26$.

  • class Solution {
    public List<List<String>> groupAnagrams(String[] strs) {
        Map<String, List<String>> d = new HashMap<>();
        for (String s : strs) {
            char[] t = s.toCharArray();
            Arrays.sort(t);
            String k = String.valueOf(t);
            d.computeIfAbsent(k, key -> new ArrayList<>()).add(s);
        }
        return new ArrayList<>(d.values());
    }
}

  • class Solution {
public:
    vector<vector<string>> groupAnagrams(vector<string>& strs) {
        unordered_map<string, vector<string>> d;
        for (auto& s : strs) {
            string k = s;
            sort(k.begin(), k.end());
            d[k].emplace_back(s);
        }
        vector<vector<string>> ans;
        for (auto& [_, v] : d) ans.emplace_back(v);
        return ans;
    }
};

  • '''
>>> from collections import defaultdict
>>> d = defaultdict(list)
>>> d["a"]=1
>>> d["b"]=2
>>> d
defaultdict(<class 'list'>, {'a': 1, 'b': 2})
>>> d.values()
dict_values([1, 2])
>>> list(d.values())
[1, 2]

### sorted(str) will return a list of chars
>>> a = "sdfddxyz"
>>> sorted(a)
['d', 'd', 'd', 'f', 's', 'x', 'y', 'z']
>>> "".join(sorted(a))
'dddfsxyz'
'''

class Solution:
    def groupAnagrams(self, strs: List[str]) -> List[List[str]]:
        d = defaultdict(list)
        for s in strs:
            k = "".join(sorted(s))
            d[k].append(s)
        return list(d.values())


  • func groupAnagrams(strs []string) (ans [][]string) {
	d := map[string][]string{}
	for _, s := range strs {
		t := []byte(s)
		sort.Slice(t, func(i, j int) bool { return t[i] < t[j] })
		k := string(t)
		d[k] = append(d[k], s)
	}
	for _, v := range d {
		ans = append(ans, v)
	}
	return
}

  • function groupAnagrams(strs: string[]): string[][] {
    const d: Map<string, string[]> = new Map();
    for (const s of strs) {
        const k = s.split('').sort().join('');
        if (!d.has(k)) {
            d.set(k, []);
        }
        d.get(k)!.push(s);
    }
    return Array.from(d.values());
}


  • using System.Collections.Generic;

public class Comparer : IEqualityComparer<string>
{
    public bool Equals(string left, string right)
    {
        if (left.Length != right.Length) return false;

        var leftCount = new int[26];
        foreach (var ch in left)
        {
            ++leftCount[ch - 'a'];
        }

        var rightCount = new int[26];
        foreach (var ch in right)
        {
            var index = ch - 'a';
            if (++rightCount[index] > leftCount[index]) return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    public int GetHashCode(string obj)
    {
        var hashCode = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < obj.Length; ++i)
        {
            hashCode ^= 1 << (obj[i] - 'a');
        }
        return hashCode;
    }
}

public class Solution {
    public IList<IList<string>> GroupAnagrams(string[] strs) {
        var dict = new Dictionary<string, List<string>>(new Comparer());
        foreach (var str in strs)
        {
            List<string> list;
            if (!dict.TryGetValue(str, out list))
            {
                list = new List<string>();
                dict.Add(str, list);
            }
            list.Add(str);
        }
        foreach (var list in dict.Values)
        {
            list.Sort();
        }
        return new List<IList<string>>(dict.Values);
    }
}

  • use std::collections::HashMap;

impl Solution {
    pub fn group_anagrams(strs: Vec<String>) -> Vec<Vec<String>> {
        let mut map = HashMap::new();
        for s in strs {
            let key = {
                let mut arr = s.chars().collect::<Vec<char>>();
                arr.sort();
                arr.iter().collect::<String>()
            };
            let val = map.entry(key).or_insert(vec![]);
            val.push(s);
        }
        map.into_iter()
            .map(|(_, v)| v)
            .collect()
    }
}

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