Hash Tables: Ransom Note

Problem Statement :

Harold is a kidnapper who wrote a ransom note, but now he is worried it will be traced back to him through his handwriting. He found a magazine and wants to know if he can cut out whole words from it and use them to create an untraceable replica of his ransom note. The words in his note are case-sensitive and he must use only whole words available in the magazine. He cannot use substrings or concatenation to create the words he needs.

Given the words in the magazine and the words in the ransom note, print Yes if he can replicate his ransom note exactly using whole words from the magazine; otherwise, print No.

For example, the note is "Attack at dawn". The magazine contains only "attack at dawn". The magazine has all the right words, but there's a case mismatch. The answer is No.

Function Description

Complete the checkMagazine function in the editor below. It must print Yes if the note can be formed using the magazine, or No

Input Format

The first line contains two space-separated integers m, and n , the numbers of words in the and the magazine and the note.
The second line contains m space-separated strings, each magazine[i].
The third line contains n space-separated strings, each note[i].

Constraints

1 <= m, n <= 300
1 <= | magazine[i] | , | note[i] | <= 5

.
Each word consists of English alphabetic letters (i.e, a to z and A to Z).

.Output Format

Print Yes if he can use the magazine to create an untraceable replica of his ransom note. Otherwise, print No.

checkMagazine has the following parameters:

magazine: an array of strings, each a word in the magazine
note: an array of strings, each a word in the ransom note

Solution :

                            Solution in C :

In C :


#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#define DICT_SIZE 50007

typedef struct _dict_entry
{
	uint64_t hash;
	char *str;
	int value;
} *dict_entry;

dict_entry dict[DICT_SIZE];

uint64_t get_hash(char *s)
{
	int shift = 0;

	uint64_t hash = 0;
	while (*s != '\0')
	{
		hash |= *s << shift;
		shift += 7;
		++s;
	}

	return hash;
}

dict_entry dict_get(char *s)
{
	uint64_t hash = get_hash(s);
	size_t pos = hash % DICT_SIZE;
	while (dict[pos] != NULL && dict[pos]->hash != hash)
		pos = (pos + 1) % DICT_SIZE;
	return dict[pos];
}

void dict_inc(char *s)
{
	dict_entry entry = dict_get(s);

	if (entry)
	{
		entry->value += 1;
	}
	else
	{
		entry = (dict_entry)malloc(sizeof(struct _dict_entry));
		memset(entry, 0, sizeof(struct _dict_entry));

		entry->hash = get_hash(s);
		entry->str = strdup(s);
		entry->value = 1;

		size_t pos = entry->hash % DICT_SIZE;
		while (dict[pos] != NULL)
			pos = (pos + 1) % DICT_SIZE;
		dict[pos] = entry;
	}
}

int is_doable()
{
	for (int j = 0; j < DICT_SIZE; ++j)
		if (dict[j] && dict[j]->value < 0)
			return 0;
	return 1;
}

int solve(int n)
{
	char buffer[10];

	for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j)
	{
		scanf("%s", buffer);

		dict_entry entry = dict_get(buffer);
		if (entry == NULL)
			return 0; // unbek. wort

		entry->value--;
	}

	return is_doable();
}

int main()
{
#ifdef _DEBUG
	char FNAME[250];
	strcpy(FNAME, __FILE__);
	strcpy(strchr(FNAME, '.'), ".txt");
	freopen(FNAME, "rt", stdin);
#endif

	int m, n;
	scanf("%d %d", &m, &n);

	char buffer[10];

	for (int j = 0; j < m; ++j)
	{
		scanf("%s", buffer);
		dict_inc(buffer);
	}

	printf(solve(n) ? "Yes" : "No");
}

                        Solution in C++ :

In C++ :


#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <unordered_set>

using namespace std;

unordered_multiset<string> magazine, ransom;

int main()
{
    size_t N, M;
    cin >> N >> M;
    
    if(N < M)
    {
        cout << "No";
        return 0;
    }
    
    string str;
    
    for(size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i)
    {
        cin >> str;
        magazine.insert(str);
    }
    
    for(size_t i = 0; i < M; ++i)
    {
        cin >> str;
        ransom.insert(str);
    }
    
    for(const auto& word : ransom)
    {
        auto found = magazine.find(word);
        
        if(found == magazine.end())
        {
            cout << "No";
            return 0;
        }
        
        magazine.erase(found);
    }
    cout << "Yes";
}

                        Solution in Java :

In java :


import java.util.*;

public class Solution {
    Map<String, Integer> magazineMap;
    Map<String, Integer> noteMap;
    
    public Solution(String magazine, String note) {
        this.noteMap = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
        this.magazineMap = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
        
       
        Integer occurrences;
        
        for(String s : magazine.split("[^a-zA-Z]+")) {
            occurrences = magazineMap.get(s);
            
            if(occurrences == null) {
                magazineMap.put(s, 1);
            }
            else {
                magazineMap.put(s, occurrences + 1);
            }
        }
        
        for(String s : note.split("[^a-zA-Z]+")) {
            occurrences = noteMap.get(s);
            
            if(occurrences == null) {
                noteMap.put(s, 1);
            }
            else {
                noteMap.put(s, occurrences + 1);
            }
        }
        
    }
    
    public void solve() {
        boolean canReplicate = true;
        for(String s : noteMap.keySet()) {
      if(!magazineMap.containsKey(s) || (magazineMap.get(s) < noteMap.get(s)) ) {
                canReplicate = false;
                break;
            }
        }
        
        System.out.println( (canReplicate) ? "Yes" : "No" );
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        int n = scanner.nextInt();
        int m = scanner.nextInt();
        
        // Eat whitespace to beginning of next line
        scanner.nextLine();
        
        Solution s = new Solution(scanner.nextLine(), scanner.nextLine());
        scanner.close();
        
        s.solve();
    }
}

                        Solution in Python : 
                            
In Python3 :


def ransom_note(magazine, ransom):
    rc = {} # dict of word: count of that word in the note
    for word in ransom:
        if word not in rc:
            rc[word] = 0
        rc[word] += 1
    
    for word in magazine:
        if word in rc:
            rc[word] -= 1
            if rc[word] == 0:
                del rc[word]
                if not rc:
                    return True
    return False
        
    

m, n = map(int, input().strip().split(' '))
magazine = input().strip().split(' ')
ransom = input().strip().split(' ')
answer = ransom_note(magazine, ransom)
if(answer):
    print("Yes")
else:
    print("No")

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