- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Hash Table, String, Counting, leetcode-2531, O(m + n), O(1), Freq Table
Problem
You are given two 0-indexed strings word1
and word2
.
A move consists of choosing two indices i
and j
such that 0 <= i < word1.length
and 0 <= j < word2.length
and swapping word1[i]
with word2[j]
.
Return true
if it is possible to get the number of distinct characters in word1
and word2
to be equal with exactly one move. Return false
otherwise.
Example 1:
Input: word1 = "ac", word2 = "b" Output: false Explanation: Any pair of swaps would yield two distinct characters in the first string, and one in the second string.
Example 2:
Input: word1 = "abcc", word2 = "aab" Output: true Explanation: We swap index 2 of the first string with index 0 of the second string. The resulting strings are word1 = "abac" and word2 = "cab", which both have 3 distinct characters.
Example 3:
Input: word1 = "abcde", word2 = "fghij" Output: true Explanation: Both resulting strings will have 5 distinct characters, regardless of which indices we swap.
Constraints:
1 <= word1.length, word2.length <= 105
word1
andword2
consist of only lowercase English letters.