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Ransom Note

Difficulty: EasyTopic: Hash TableStringCountingLeetcode:383.Ransom Note

Given two strings ransomNote and magazine, return true if ransomNote can be constructed by using the letters from magazine and false otherwise.

Each letter in magazine can only be used once in ransomNote.

Example 1:

Input: ransomNote = "a", magazine = "b"
Output: false
 

Example 2:

Input: ransomNote = "aa", magazine = "ab"
Output: false
 

Example 3:

Input: ransomNote = "aa", magazine = "aab"
Output: true
 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= ransomNote.length, magazine.length <= 105
  • ransomNote and magazine consist of lowercase English letters.

Solution

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/**
 * @param {string} ransomNote
 * @param {string} magazine
 * @return {boolean}
 */
var canConstruct = function (ransomNote, magazine) {
  const ra = ransomNote.split(''),
    ma = magazine.split('')
  while (ra.length) {
    const curIndex = ma.indexOf(ra.pop())
    if (curIndex === -1) return false
    ma.splice(curIndex, 1)
  }
  return true
};

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