Problem
You are given an array of strings of the same length words
.
In one move, you can swap any two even indexed characters or any two odd indexed characters of a string words[i]
.
Two strings words[i]
and words[j]
are special-equivalent if after any number of moves, words[i] == words[j]
.
- For example,
words[i] = "zzxy"
andwords[j] = "xyzz"
are special-equivalent because we may make the moves"zzxy" -> "xzzy" -> "xyzz"
.
A group of special-equivalent strings from words
is a non-empty subset of words such that:
- Every pair of strings in the group are special equivalent, and
- The group is the largest size possible (i.e., there is not a string
words[i]
not in the group such thatwords[i]
is special-equivalent to every string in the group).
Return the number of groups of special-equivalent strings from words
.
Example 1:
Input: words = ["abcd","cdab","cbad","xyzz","zzxy","zzyx"] Output: 3 Explanation: One group is ["abcd", "cdab", "cbad"], since they are all pairwise special equivalent, and none of the other strings is all pairwise special equivalent to these. The other two groups are ["xyzz", "zzxy"] and ["zzyx"]. Note that in particular, "zzxy" is not special equivalent to "zzyx".
Example 2:
Input: words = ["abc","acb","bac","bca","cab","cba"] Output: 3
Constraints:
1 <= words.length <= 1000
1 <= words[i].length <= 20
words[i]
consist of lowercase English letters.- All the strings are of the same length.