- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Hash Table, String, Counting, Sorting, leetcode-1657, O(n), O(1)
Problem
Two strings are considered close if you can attain one from the other using the following operations:
- Operation 1: Swap any two existing characters.
- For example,
abcde -> aecdb
- For example,
- Operation 2: Transform every occurrence of one existing character into another existing character, and do the same with the other character.
- For example,
aacabb -> bbcbaa
(alla
's turn intob
's, and allb
's turn intoa
's)
- For example,
You can use the operations on either string as many times as necessary.
Given two strings, word1
and word2
, return true
if word1
and word2
are close, and false
otherwise.
Example 1:
Input: word1 = "abc", word2 = "bca" Output: true Explanation: You can attain word2 from word1 in 2 operations. Apply Operation 1: "abc" -> "acb" Apply Operation 1: "acb" -> "bca"
Example 2:
Input: word1 = "a", word2 = "aa" Output: false Explanation: It is impossible to attain word2 from word1, or vice versa, in any number of operations.
Example 3:
Input: word1 = "cabbba", word2 = "abbccc" Output: true Explanation: You can attain word2 from word1 in 3 operations. Apply Operation 1: "cabbba" -> "caabbb" Apply Operation 2: "caabbb" -> "baaccc" Apply Operation 2: "baaccc" -> "abbccc"
Constraints:
1 <= word1.length, word2.length <= 105
word1
andword2
contain only lowercase English letters.