Given two strings s and t which consist of only lowercase letters.
String t is generated by random shuffling string s and then add one more letter at a random position.
Find the letter that was added in t.
Example:
Input:
s = “abcd”
t = “abcde”
Output:
e
Explanation:
‘e’ is the letter that was added.
题目:
给定两个只由小写字母组成的字符串s和t,字符串t是由字符串s随机打乱排序后在任意位置添加一个字母产生的。找到t中添加的那个字母。
分析:
将两个字符串合并为一个字符串,再将合并后的字符串转换为一个字符数组,用一个集合存储所有字母出现的次数,此处可以参考136. Single Number这一题的方法,如果该字母出现的次数为奇数,则说明该字母为所求。
/**
* @param {string} s
* @param {string} t
* @return {character}
*/
var findTheDifference = function(s, t) {
var arr = (s + t).split("");
var count = {};
for (let i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
if (count[arr[i]] === undefined) {
count[arr[i]] = 1;
} else {
count[arr[i]]++;
}
}
for (let c in count) {
if (count[c] % 2 === 1) {
return c;
}
}
};
另一种方法:
先将两个字符串都转为字符数组操作,然后遍历字符数组,如果t字符数组中出现s字符数组中的字母,则将该字母从t字符数组中移除,最后返回剩下的那个字母即可。
var findTheDifference = function(s, t) {
var sArr = s.split("");
var tArr = t.split("");
for (let i=0; i<sArr.length; i++) {
for (let j=0; j<tArr.length; j++) {
if (sArr[i] === tArr[j]) {
tArr.splice(j,1);
break;
}
}
}
return tArr[0];
};