# Challenge name: Isomorphic Strings # # Given two strings s and t, determine if they are isomorphic. # Two strings s and t are isomorphic if the characters in s can be replaced to get t. # All occurrences of a character must be replaced with another character while preserving the order of characters. # No two characters may map to the same character, but a character may map to itself. # # Example 1: # Input: s = "egg", t = "add" # Output: true # # Example 2: # Input: s = "foo", t = "bar" # Output: false # # Example 3: # Input: s = "paper", t = "title" # Output: true # # Constraints: # 1 <= s.length <= 5 * 104 # t.length == s.length # s and t consist of any valid ascii character. # Approach 1: Hash Map # Time Complexity: O(N) # Space Complexity: O(N) def isomorphic_strings_check(s, t) # store character mappings map = {} # store already mapped characters set = [] (0..s.length - 1).each do |i| # store characters to compare char1 = s[i] char2 = t[i] # if char1 is mapped if map[char1] # return false if char1 is mapped to a different character than already present return false if map[char1] != char2 # if char1 is not mapped else # return false if char2 is already mapped to a different character return false if set.include?(char2) # checks passed: add new character map and track that char2 has been mapped map[char1] = char2 set << char2 end end true end puts isomorphic_strings_check('egg', 'add') # => true puts isomorphic_strings_check('foo', 'bar') # => false puts isomorphic_strings_check('paper', 'title') # => true