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]]