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Determine if Two Strings Are Close

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Two strings are considered close if you can attain one from the other using the following operations:

  • Operation 1: Swap any two existing characters.

    For example,abcde -> aecdb

  • Operation 2: Transform every occurrence of one existing character into another existing character and do the same with the other character.

    For example, aacabb -> bbcbaa (all a’s turn into b’s, and all b’s turn into a’s) You can use the operations on either string as many times as necessary.

Given two strings, word1 and word2, return 1 if word1 and word2 are close, and 0 otherwise.

Input Format:

First parameter: String word1.

Second parameter: String word2.

Output Format:

Return the number.

Example 1:

Input:
abc
bca
Output: 
1
Explanation: You can attain word2 from word1 in 2 operations.
Apply Operation 1: "abc" -> "acb"
Apply Operation 1: "acb" -> "bca"

Example 2:

Input: 
a
aa
Output: 
0
Explanation: It is impossible to attain word2 from word1, or vice versa, in any number of operations.

Example 3:

Input:
cabbba
abbccc
Output: 
1
Explanation: You can attain word2 from word1 in 3 operations.
Apply Operation 1: "cabbba" -> "caabbb"
Apply Operation 2: "caabbb" -> "baaccc"
Apply Operation 2: "baaccc" -> "abbccc"

Constraints:

  • 1 <= word1.length, word2.length <= 105
  • word1 and word2 contain only lowercase English letters.
  • Time complexity: O(n)
  • Space complexity: O(1)
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