[Leetcode] 389. Find the Difference 解题报告

题目：

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.

思路：

一道easy级别的题目。它既可以用哈希表来实现，也可以用定长数组，一般而言，定长数组的效率更高。

代码：

class Solution {
public:
    char findTheDifference(string s, string t) {
        vector<int> counts(26, 0);
        for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); ++i) {
            ++counts[s[i] - 'a'];
        }
        for(int i = 0; i < t.length(); ++i) {
            --counts[t[i] - 'a'];
            if(counts[t[i] - 'a'] < 0) {
                return t[i];
            }
        }
        return ' ';
    }
};