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1657. Determine if Two Strings Are Close

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First completed : July 13, 2024

Last updated : July 13, 2024

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Related Topics : Hash Table, String, Sorting, Counting

Acceptance Rate : 54.648 %

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Notes

• Operation 1: if is any permutation basically
• Operation 2: if count of frequencies matches ignoring actual letters

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Solutions

• m1657.py

Python

m1657.py

class Solution:
    def closeStrings(self, word1: str, word2: str) -> bool:
        if word1 == word2 :
            return True

        cnt1, cnt2 = Counter(word1), Counter(word2)
        freqCnt1, freqCnt2 = Counter(cnt1.values()), Counter(cnt2.values())

        if freqCnt1 == freqCnt2 and cnt1.keys() == cnt2.keys() :
            return True

        return False