题目描述:
Given an arbitrary ransom note string and another string containing letters from all the magazines, write a function that will return true if the ransom note can be constructed from the magazines ; otherwise, it will return false.
Each letter in the magazine string can only be used once in your ransom note.
Note:
You may assume that both strings contain only lowercase letters.
canConstruct("a", "b") -> false canConstruct("aa", "ab") -> false canConstruct("aa", "aab") -> true
解题思路:
开26个数组存入magzine字母的数目,每个位置存对应字母的数目;
对ransom字符串来说,每读一个字母,则将对应位置的字母数目减一,如果某个字母数目小于0了,则表明字母不够用,从而返回false;否则返回true。
代码如下:
public class Solution {
public boolean canConstruct(String ransomNote, String magazine) {
int[] ran_array = new int[26];
for(int i = 0; i < magazine.length(); i++){
ran_array[magazine.charAt(i) - 'a']++;
}
for(int i = 0; i < ransomNote.length(); i++){
if(--ran_array[ransomNote.charAt(i) - 'a'] < 0)
return false;
}
return true;
}
}