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Group anagrams together program

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by admin

Overview

Given an array of strings, write a program to group all anagrams together.  From Wikipedia

An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. For example, the word anagram itself can be rearranged into nag a ram, also the word binary into brainy, and the word adobe into the abode.
For eg

Input: ["art", "tap", "rat", "pat", "tar","arm"]
Output: [["art", "rat", "tar"], ["tap", "pat"], ["arm"]]

Below will the strategy.

  • Duplicate the original array. Sort each string in the duplicate array. After sorting the duplicate array will look like this
["art", "apt", "art", "apt", "art", "arm"]
  • Create a map to store the output
var output map[string][]int
  • Build a trie for the above duplicate array with all strings sorted. Update the map above after inserting each element. Map should look like as below for “art” as art has its anagrams at 0,2 and 5 positions in the original array.
map["art"] = [0,2,4]
  • Iterate over the map and print the output by indexing in the input array of strings

Program

Below is the program for the same

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"sort"
)

func main() {
	strs := []string{"art", "tap", "rat", "pat", "tar", "arm"}
	output := groupAnagrams(strs)
	fmt.Println(output)

	strs = []string{""}
	output = groupAnagrams(strs)
	fmt.Println(output)

	strs = []string{"a"}
	output = groupAnagrams(strs)
	fmt.Println(output)
}

type sortRune []rune

func (s sortRune) Swap(i, j int) {
	s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
}

func (s sortRune) Less(i, j int) bool {
	return s[i] < s[j]
}

func (s sortRune) Len() int {
	return len(s)
}

func groupAnagrams(strs []string) [][]string {

	anagramMap := make(map[string][]int)
	var anagrams [][]string
	trie := &trie{root: &trieNode{}}

	lenStrs := len(strs)

	var strsDup []string

	for i := 0; i < lenStrs; i++ {
		runeCurrent := []rune(strs[i])
		sort.Sort(sortRune(runeCurrent))
		strsDup = append(strsDup, string(runeCurrent))
	}

	for i := 0; i < lenStrs; i++ {
		anagramMap = trie.insert(strsDup[i], i, anagramMap)
	}

	for _, value := range anagramMap {
		var combinedTemp []string
		for i := 0; i < len(value); i++ {
			combinedTemp = append(combinedTemp, strs[value[i]])
		}
		anagrams = append(anagrams, combinedTemp)
	}

	return anagrams
}

type trieNode struct {
	isWord    bool
	childrens [26]*trieNode
}

type trie struct {
	root *trieNode
}

func (t *trie) insert(input string, wordIndex int, anagramMap map[string][]int) map[string][]int {
	inputLen := len(input)
	current := t.root

	for i := 0; i < inputLen; i++ {
		index := input[i] - 'a'
		if current.childrens[index] == nil {
			current.childrens[index] = &trieNode{}
		}
		current = current.childrens[index]
	}
	current.isWord = true
	if anagramMap[input] == nil {
		anagramMap[input] = []int{wordIndex}
	} else {
		anagramMap[input] = append(anagramMap[input], wordIndex)
	}
	return anagramMap
}

Output

[[art rat tar] [tap pat] [arm]]
[[]]
[[a]]
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