Cracking the Coding Interview Chap1 Q1.1

Q1.1

Implement an algorithm to determine if a string has all unique characters. What if you can not use additional data structures?

Sol.1 :

check every char of the string to every other char of the string for duplicate occurrences

Time complexity is O(n^2) , but no additional space is used

public class ccChap1_1 {
	public static void main(String[] args)  {
		String str = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstttuvwxyz";
		int count=0;
		for (int i=0; i<str.length();i++){
			for(int j=0;j<str.length();j++){
				if(str.charAt(i)==str.charAt(j)&&i!=j){
					count=1;
					break;
					}
				}
			
			}
		if(count==0){
			System.out.println("Unique");		
		}else if (count==1){
			System.out.println("Not unique");
		}

		}
		
}

Sol.2

Assume char set is ASCII, if not ,just need to increase the size of char set

Initiate a boolean char set with default false value, so for each char of string, read char from string and set boolean value to true; if the char was read more than one time, function will return false to notice this string is not all unique characters. 

public class ccChap1_1Sol {
	public static void main(String[] args){
		//boolean[] char_set = new boolean (256);
		String a = "abcdefg#@$%^&&";
		System.out.println(ccChap1_1Sol.isUniqueChars(a));
		
	}
	public static boolean isUniqueChars(String str){
		boolean[] char_set = new boolean[256];
		for(int i=0; i<str.length();i++){
			int val = str.charAt(i);
			if(char_set[val]) return false;
			char_set[val] = true;
		}
		return true;
	}
}