A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman.
Questions tagged [anagram]
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Anagrams in Swift with wildcard (or joker)
Based on this function in Swift:
func anagrams(word: String, from words: [String]) -> [String] {
let anagrammedWord = word as NSString
let length = anagrammedWord.length
var aDic = [unichar:Int]()
for i in 0..

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"==" always returning true. Anagram program
I have made a simple function which checks if two words are an anagram by sorting and comparing the sorted values, however this program always returns true even if the words aren't anangrams. If I remove the .ToString() it evalutates as false. Any…

Ay Jay
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Angram Strings in Java
I am trying to create an anagram generating program in Java.
I am using String.toCharArray(); to store the word character by character.
To get the anagrams done, I need to invert the values between two array positions. How do I do this?

Riccardo Testa
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C++ How to ignore the difference between upper and lower when checking Anagram?
bool isAnagram(string s1, string s2){
if(s1.length() != s2.length())
return false;
for(int i =0; i

LEO
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lavinshtein distance with dictionary
How to advance edit distance with operation take an anagram of the existing word. every interim step must be a word from a list of words .

Priya Somani
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Java Anagram - Simple Challenge
Hello Stack Overflow Community. I developed a simple Java program to detect whether or not a word entered by the user is an Anagram. I do not receive the expected output based on the boolean value. Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated.
Note:…

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C - Count the number of combinations possible in a string without repetitions
Good night, what's the best way in C to count the number of possibilities of UNIQUE anagrams in a string with the maximum length of 256 without allows repetitions caused by same letters? The input would be just in uppercase and only alphabet letters…

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Java Beginner, comparing strings in nested for loop
Here is the problem statement: Write a function that compares 2 strings to return true or false depending on if both strings contain the same letters. Order doesn't matter.
I do not know how to properly compare the character arrays in my nested for…

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Anagram code meaning
In the below code, what is the meaning of the following line?
m.put(alpha, l=new ArrayList());
Code (for finding Anagrams):
try {
Scanner s = new Scanner(new File(args[0]));
while (s.hasNext()) {
String word = s.next();
…

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What should be the logic of hashfunction() in order to check that two strings are anagrams or not?
I want to write a function that takes string as a parameter and returns a number corresponding to that string.
Integer hashfunction(String a)
{
//logic
}
Actually the question im solving is as follows :
Given an array of strings,…

Tej Partap Singh
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Group together all the anagrams
Problem statement:
You are given a set of k strings, each length n. You have to output the group of anagrams together. Anagrams are like e.g atm - mat , like-kile.

Jatin Ganhotra
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Python 3 - Nested for loops with .count() to check string count per character in word
Here I'm asking for a word, and generating a list of all combinations for the letters in word variable, in theory (in my head) the for loop's if statement should work.
from itertools import product
from string import ascii_lowercase
word =…

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How to scramble a String
I'm trying to make an Anagram puzzle where I input a word (for example, fire) and it scrambles it randomly around for me (and it ends up like "rfie", "frei", etc...) Below is the basics of what I'm trying to do. All I need to know is how to scramble…
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Need an algorithm... not sure what this is called
Given a string: "ABCD", return the substrings with one or more missing characters keeping the order of the strings. This doesn't seem to be a "permutation", but I'm not sure if this algorithm has a name. I am using this to generate anagrams of a…

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Using ASCII to find valid Anagram
Why doesn't this solution work for finding valid anagram?
26/36 test cases get passed in LeetCode.
class Solution {
public boolean isAnagram(String s, String t) {
int sASCII = 0, tASCII = 0;
if(s.length() !=…

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