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Solution: Custom Sort String

Explore how to use hash maps to solve the custom sort string problem by counting character frequencies and rearranging characters according to a custom order. Understand how to efficiently build the result string while maintaining relative character order as specified.

Statement

Given two strings, order and s, where all characters in order are unique and arranged in a custom order, return any permutation of s that satisfies the following condition:

The characters in the permuted s should appear in the same relative order as they do in order. Specifically, if a character x appears before a character y in order, then x must also appear before y in the permuted string.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq order.length 26\leq 26 ...