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Recursive Anagram Checker in Java
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static boolean isAnagram(String s1, String s2) | |
{ | |
//convert string to lower case | |
s1 = s1.toLowerCase(); | |
s2 = s2.toLowerCase(); | |
if(s1.length() != s2.length()) | |
{ | |
return false; | |
} | |
else | |
{ | |
StringBuilder sb1 = new StringBuilder(s1); | |
StringBuilder sb2 = new StringBuilder(s2); | |
return isAnagram(sb1, sb2); | |
} | |
} | |
private static boolean isAnagram(StringBuilder sb1, StringBuilder sb2) | |
{ | |
if(sb1.length() == 0 && sb2.length() == 0) | |
{ | |
return true; | |
} | |
char checker = sb1.charAt(0); | |
int index = sb2.indexOf(Character.toString(checker)); | |
//returns -1 if the CharacterSequence is not in StringBuilder | |
if(index == -1) | |
{ | |
return false; | |
} | |
sb1 = sb1.deleteCharAt(0); | |
sb2 = sb2.deleteCharAt(index); | |
return isAnagram(sb1, sb2); | |
} |
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