Given a pattern
and a string str
, find if str
follows the same pattern.
Here follow means a full match, such that there is a bijection between a letter in pattern
and a non-empty word in str
.
Examples:
- pattern =
"abba"
, str ="dog cat cat dog"
should return true. - pattern =
"abba"
, str ="dog cat cat fish"
should return false. - pattern =
"aaaa"
, str ="dog cat cat dog"
should return false. - pattern =
"abba"
, str ="dog dog dog dog"
should return false.
Notes:
You may assume pattern
contains only lowercase letters, and str
contains lowercase letters separated by a single space.
public class Solution {
public boolean wordPattern(String pattern, String str) {
String[] splitArray = str.split(" ");
HashMap<Character, String> map = new HashMap<Character, String>();
if (pattern.length() != splitArray.length) {
return false;
}
char currentChar;
for (int i = 0; i < pattern.length(); ++i) {
currentChar = pattern.charAt(i);
if (map.containsKey(currentChar)) {
if (!map.get(currentChar).equals(splitArray[i])) {
return false;
}
} else {
if (map.containsValue(splitArray[i])) {
return false;
}
map.put(currentChar, splitArray[i]);
}
}
return true;
}
}