- Determine if String Halves Are Alike
Easy
You are given a string s of even length. Split this string into two halves of equal lengths, and let a be the first half and b be the second half.
Two strings are alike if they have the same number of vowels (‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, ‘u’, ‘A’, ‘E’, ‘I’, ‘O’, ‘U’). Notice that s contains uppercase and lowercase letters.
Return true if a and b are alike. Otherwise, return false.
Example 1:
Input: s = “book”
Output: true
Explanation: a = “bo” and b = “ok”. a has 1 vowel and b has 1 vowel. Therefore, they are alike.
Example 2:
Input: s = “textbook”
Output: false
Explanation: a = “text” and b = “book”. a has 1 vowel whereas b has 2. Therefore, they are not alike.
Notice that the vowel o is counted twice.
Example 3:
Input: s = “MerryChristmas”
Output: false
Example 4:
Input: s = “AbCdEfGh”
Output: true
Constraints:
2 <= s.length <= 1000
s.length is even.
s consists of uppercase and lowercase letters.
class Solution:
def halvesAreAlike(self, s: str) -> bool:
first = s[:len(s) // 2]
second = s[len(s) // 2:]
vowel = "aeiouAEIOU"
first_count, second_count = 0, 0
for letter in first:
if letter in vowel:
first_count += 1
for letter in second:
if letter in vowel:
second_count += 1
return first_count == second_count