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Strings: Making Anagrams

  • JohnnyHendrix
     + 7 comments

    Pretty cool solution. Here is the solution in python

    from math import fabs

def number_needed(a, b):
    letterArray = [0] * 26
    for c in a:
        index = ord(c) - ord('a');
        letterArray[index]+=1
    for c in b:
        index = ord(c) - ord('a')
        letterArray[index]-=1
    result = 0
    for i in letterArray:
        result += fabs(i)
    return int(result)
    
a = raw_input().strip()
b = raw_input().strip()

print number_needed(a, b)