LeetCode-Groups of Special-Equivalent Strings

Description：

You are given an array A of strings.

Two strings S and T are special-equivalent if after any number of moves, S == T.

A move consists of choosing two indices i and j with i % 2 == j % 2, and swapping S[i] with S[j].

Now, a group of special-equivalent strings from A is a non-empty subset S of A such that any string not in S is not special-equivalent with any string in S.

Return the number of groups of special-equivalent strings from A.

Example 1:

Input: ["a","b","c","a","c","c"]
Output: 3
Explanation: 3 groups ["a","a"], ["b"], ["c","c","c"]      

Example 2:

Input: ["aa","bb","ab","ba"]
Output: 4
Explanation: 4 groups ["aa"], ["bb"], ["ab"], ["ba"]      

Example 3:

Input: ["abc","acb","bac","bca","cab","cba"]
Output: 3
Explanation: 3 groups ["abc","cba"], ["acb","bca"], ["bac","cab"]      

Example 4:

Input: ["abcd","cdab","adcb","cbad"]
Output: 1
Explanation: 1 group ["abcd","cdab","adcb","cbad"]      

Note:

• 1 <= A.length <= 1000
• 1 <= A[i].length <= 20
• All A[i] have the same length.
• All A[i] consist of only lowercase letters.

• Arrays.sort(S1).equals(Arrays.sort(T1))
• Arrays.sort(S2).equals(Arrays.sort(T2))

Java

class Solution {
    public int numSpecialEquivGroups(String[] A) {
        boolean[] visited = new boolean[A.length];
        int cnt = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < A.length; i++) {
            boolean group = false;
            if (visited[i]) continue;
            for (int j = i + 1; j < A.length; j++) {
                if (!visited[j] && specialEquivalent(A[i], A[j])) {
                    group = true;
                    visited[j] = true;
                }
            }
            cnt++;
        }
        return cnt;
    }
    
    private boolean specialEquivalent (String S, String T) {
        char[] S1 = new char[S.length() / 2 + 1];
        char[] S2 = new char[S.length() / 2 + 1];
        char[] T1 = new char[T.length() / 2 + 1];
        char[] T2 = new char[T.length() / 2 + 1];
        for (int i = 0; i < S.length(); i++) {
            if (i % 2 == 0) S1[i / 2] = S.charAt(i);
            else S2[i / 2]= S.charAt(i);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < T.length(); i++) {
            if (i % 2 == 0) T1[i / 2] = T.charAt(i);
            else T2[i / 2]= T.charAt(i);
        }
        Arrays.sort(S1);
        Arrays.sort(S2);
        Arrays.sort(T1);
        Arrays.sort(T2);
        return Arrays.toString(S1).equals(Arrays.toString(T1)) &&
               Arrays.toString(S2).equals(Arrays.toString(T2)) ? true : false;
    }
}