389. Find the Difference

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.

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思路一： 暴力破解

class Solution {
public:
    char findTheDifference(string s, string t) {
        sort(s.begin(),s.end());
        sort(t.begin(),t.end());
        for(int i =0;i<s.size();i++){
            if(s[i]!= t[i]) return t[i];
        }
        return t[t.size()-1];
        
    }
};

思路二： hash table

class Solution {  
public:  
    char findTheDifference(string s, string t) {  
        unordered_map<char, int> hash;  
        char ans;  
        for(auto ch: s) hash[ch]++;  
        for(auto ch: t)   
            if(--hash[ch]<0) ans = ch;   
        return ans;  
    }  
};  

思路三：异或

class Solution {  
public:  
    char findTheDifference(string s, string t) {  
        s += t;  
        int ch =0;  
        for(auto val: s) ch ^= val;  
        return ch;  
    }  
};