Given a pattern
and a string str
, find if str
follows the same pattern.
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:
pattern
contains only lowercase alphabetical letters, andstr
contains words separated by a single space. Each word instr
contains only lowercase alphabetical letters.- Both
pattern
andstr
do not have leading or trailing spaces. - Each letter in
pattern
must map to a word with length that is at least 1.
JavaScript:
/**
* @param {string} pattern
* @param {string} str
* @return {boolean}
*/
var wordPattern = function(pattern, str) {
var myArr=str.split(' ');
var myPattern=pattern.split('');
var flag=1;
if(pattern.length != myArr.length){
return false;
}
for(var i=0;i<pattern.length;i++){
for(var j=0;j<pattern.length;j++)
{
if(myPattern[i] == myPattern[j]){
if(myArr[i] != myArr[j]){
flag=0;
}
}else{
if(myArr[i] == myArr[j]){
flag=0;
}
}
}
}
if(flag){
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
};