Find All Anagrams in a String
Explore how to identify all starting indexes of anagrams of a given string within another string. Learn to apply tracking strategies that handle character counts and rearrangements efficiently. This lesson helps you understand problem constraints and implement solutions to detect anagrams using practical coding exercises.
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Statement
Given two strings, a and b, return an array of all the start indexes of anagrams of b in a. We may return the answer in any order.
An anagram is a word or phrase created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase while utilizing each of the original letters exactly once. For example, “act” is the anagram of “cat”, and “flow” is the anagram of “wolf”.
Constraints:
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a.length,b.length - Both
aandbconsist only of lowercase English letters.
Examples
Understand the problem
Let’s take a moment to make sure you’ve correctly understood the problem. The quiz below helps you to check if you’re solving the correct problem:
Find All Anagrams in a String
What’s the correct output for the following inputs?
a = “abab”
b = “ab”
[0]
[0, 2]
[0, 1, 2]
[1, 2]
Figure it out
We have a game for you to play. Rearrange the logical building blocks to develop a clearer understanding of how to solve this problem.
Try it yourself
Implement your solution in the following coding playground.
package mainfunc findAnagrams(a string, b string) []int {// Replace this placeholder return statement with your codereturn make([]int, 0)}