Leetcode Problem 2186. Minimum Number of Steps to Make Two Strings Anagram II

2186. Minimum Number of Steps to Make Two Strings Anagram II

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Frequency Counting and Difference Summation

  1. Initialize an array freq of size 26 to store the frequency of each character (assuming only lowercase English letters).
  2. Iterate over each character in string s and increment the corresponding index in freq.
  3. Iterate over each character in string t and decrement the corresponding index in freq.
  4. Initialize a variable count to store the total number of steps.
  5. Iterate over the freq array and add the absolute value of each element to count.
  6. Return count as the result.
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Use of HashMaps for Frequency Counting

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