Verifying an Alien Dictionary

In an alien language, surprisingly they also use english lowercase letters, but possibly in a different order. The order of the alphabet is some permutation of lowercase letters.

Given a sequence of words written in the alien language, and the order of the alphabet, return true if and only if the given words are sorted lexicographicaly in this alien language.

Example 1:

Input: words = ["hello","leetcode"], order = "hlabcdefgijkmnopqrstuvwxyz"
Output: true
Explanation: As 'h' comes before 'l' in this language, then the sequence is sorted.

Example 2:

Input: words = ["word","world","row"], order = "worldabcefghijkmnpqstuvxyz"
Output: false
Explanation: As 'd' comes after 'l' in this language, then words[0] > words[1], hence the sequence is unsorted.

Example 3:

Input: words = ["apple","app"], order = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
Output: false
Explanation: The first three characters "app" match, and the second string is shorter (in size.) According to lexicographical rules "apple" > "app", because 'l' > '∅', where '∅' is defined as the blank character which is less than any other character (More info).

思路：就是存一下字典序的index，然后比较前后顺序；

我自己写的是用hashmap写的，但是牛逼人写的就是简洁，用数组更加简洁。

class Solution {
    public boolean isAlienSorted(String[] words, String order) {
        int[] sequence = new int[26];
        for(int i = 0; i < order.length(); i++) {
            char oc = order.charAt(i);
            sequence[oc - 'a'] = i;
        }
        
        for(int i = 0; i < words.length - 1; i++) {
            if(!isSorted(words[i], words[i + 1], sequence)) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
    
    private boolean isSorted(String a, String b, int[] sequence) {
        int alen = a.length();
        int blen = b.length();
        for(int i = 0; i < Math.min(alen, blen); i++) {
            if(a.charAt(i) != b.charAt(i)) {
                return sequence[a.charAt(i) - 'a'] < sequence[b.charAt(i) - 'a'];
            }
        }
        return alen <= blen;
    }
}