How to compare version numbers in C++ [duplicate] - c++

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Compare versions as strings
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Closed 6 years ago.
Our professor want us to write a program to compare two version numbers, like 0.1 < 0.2 or 1 < 1.1. Also there are some trick ones like .0.4 < .1.
So, my idea is first judge if the number start as a dot, if it does, I add a 0 to it. After that I remove other dots except the first one. Then I convert string to number and compare them. Here's what I do in the first step.
string numb1,numb2;
if(numb1[0]=='.')
{
numb1 ="0"+ numb1;
}
I do the same thing to the second number. And now I need help to show me how to remove the dots except the first one.
Our professor want us to use this specific function:
int compareVersions(string ver1, string ver2).
If ver1 > ver2: return 1
if ver1 < ver2: return -1
otherwise return 0.
By the way, some of the vision number may very long like 2.3.2.2.3.1.1.5.3.5.6.2 or 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.

Here's one approach that should work for numerical version numbers:
Split the input strings into pieces using getline(strstream, token, ".")
Convert corresponding pieces to numbers using atoi or stol and compare numerically
Basically, treat the version numbers as sequences of numbers separated by . and compare those sequences lexicographically.
Note that a practical, general version number comparison algorithm probably needs to handle extra trickiness such as letter suffixes (e.g. 1.1e, 2.4b24, 3.5rc1), etc. I'm assuming that this is outside the scope of a class exercise, but the approach is similar: split these parts into sequences of numeric and non-numeric parts and compare each part (e.g. 2.4b7 < 2.4b24 because 4, "b", 7 < 4, "b", 24).

Something like this would work to do the checking and is fairly minimal. It makes use of boost to split the string and then compares the version step by step. It automatically deals with missing leading zeros.
#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
int version_a_newer_than_b(const std::string& a, const std::string& b)
{
// First, split the string.
std::vector<std::string> va, vb;
boost::split(va, a, boost::is_any_of("."));
boost::split(vb, b, boost::is_any_of("."));
// Compare the numbers step by step, but only as deep as the version
// with the least elements allows.
const int depth = std::min(va.size(), vb.size());
int ia,ib;
for (int i=0; i<depth; ++i)
{
ia = atoi(va[i].c_str());
ib = atoi(vb[i].c_str());
if (ia != ib)
break;
}
// Return the required number.
if (ia > ib)
return 1;
else if (ia < ib)
return -1;
else
{
// In case of equal versions, assumes that the version
// with the most elements is the highest version.
if (va.size() > vb.size())
return 1;
else if (va.size() < vb.size())
return -1;
}
// Everything is equal, return 0.
return 0;
}
int main()
{
std::string a = "0.1.32.8";
std::string b = "0.1";
std::cout << "Is a newer than b: " << version_a_newer_than_b(a, b) << std::endl;
return 0;
}

What you need to do is iterate through the string, ignoring '.' and converting the char representations of numbers into ints. Then compare the two end results.
string numb1 = "4.3.2";
string numb2 = "3.4.5";
int n1 = 0;
int n2 = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < numb1.length(); i++)
{
if (numb1[i] != '.')
{
n1 = n1 * 10;
n2 = n2 * 10;
n1 += (int(numb1[i]) - '0');
n2 += (int(numb2[i]) - '0');
}
}
That will give you 432 and 345, comparing those would give you which is the higher version.

Since you know numb[1] would equal to '.' you can just use
numb1.erase(std::remove(numb1.begin() + 2, numb1.end(), '.'), numb1.end());
Which would remove all dots in numb1 after the second character.

Following example will demonstrates comparison between following version format:
major.minor.revision.build or any shorter version, like only major while it allows you to extend it to fit your needs as of,
"some of the version numbers may be very long like 2.3.2.2.3.1.1.5.3.5.6.2"
Using example bellow, dots in the beginning and end of the version string are taken care of as far .0.4 is considered to be equal to 0.0.4 and .1. is considered to be equal to 0.1.0.
CompareVersion.h
#ifndef COMPAREVERSION_H_
#define COMPAREVERSION_H_
#include <cstdio>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
struct CompareVersion {
public:
int maj;
int min;
int rev;
int build;
CompareVersion(std::string);
bool operator < (const CompareVersion&);
bool operator <= (const CompareVersion&);
bool operator == (const CompareVersion&);
friend std::ostream& operator << (std::ostream& stream, const CompareVersion& ver) {
stream << ver.maj;
stream << '.';
stream << ver.min;
stream << '.';
stream << ver.rev;
stream << '.';
stream << ver.build;
return stream;
};
void reset();
};
#endif /* COMPAREVERSION_H_ */
CompareVersion.cpp
#include "CompareVersion.h"
CompareVersion::CompareVersion(std::string version)
{
reset();
if (version.compare(0,1,".") == 0)
version = "0"+version;
if (version.compare(version.size()-1,1,".") == 0)
version.append("0");
sscanf(version.c_str(), "%d.%d.%d.%d", &maj, &min, &rev, &build);
if (maj <= 0) maj = 0;
if (min <= 0) min = 0;
if (rev <= 0) rev = 0;
if (build <= 0) build = 0;
}
bool CompareVersion::operator < (const CompareVersion& other)
{
if (maj < other.maj) return true;
if (min < other.min) return true;
if (rev < other.rev) return true;
if (build < other.build) return true;
return false;
}
bool CompareVersion::operator <= (const CompareVersion& other)
{
if (maj >= other.maj) return true;
if (min >= other.min) return true;
if (rev >= other.rev) return true;
if (build >= other.build) return true;
return false;
}
bool CompareVersion::operator == (const CompareVersion& other)
{
return maj == other.maj
&& min == other.min
&& rev == other.rev
&& build == other.build;
}
void CompareVersion::reset()
{
maj = 0;
min = 0;
rev = 0;
build = 0;
}
main.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "CompareVersion.h"
using namespace std;
int main()
{
if((CompareVersion("1.2.3.4") == CompareVersion("1.2.3.4")) == true)
cout << "Version 1.2.3.4 and version 1.2.3.4 are equal" << endl;
if((CompareVersion("1.2.3.3") < CompareVersion("1.2.3.4")) == true)
cout << "Version 1.2.3.3 is smaller than 1.2.3.4. " << endl;
if((CompareVersion("1.2.3.4") < CompareVersion("1.2.3.4")) == true)
cout << "You won't see that. " << endl;
if((CompareVersion("1.2.3.4") <= CompareVersion("1.2.3.4")) == true)
cout << "Version 1.2.3.4 is smaller or equal to 1.2.3.4" << endl;
if((CompareVersion("1") <= CompareVersion("1.0.0.1")) == true)
cout << "Version 1 is smaller or equal to 1.0.0.1" << endl;
/* THE DOTS */
if((CompareVersion(".0.4") == CompareVersion("0.0.4")) == true)
cout << "Version .0.4 and version 0.0.4 are equal" << endl;
if((CompareVersion(".1.") == CompareVersion("0.1.0")) == true)
cout << "Version .1. and version 0.1.0 are equal" << endl;
if((CompareVersion("1") == CompareVersion("1.0.0.0")) == true)
cout << "Version 1 and version 1.0.0.0 are equal" << endl;
return 0;
}
Output
Version 1.2.3.4 and version 1.2.3.4 are equal
Version 1.2.3.3 is smaller than 1.2.3.4.
Version 1.2.3.4 is smaller or equal to 1.2.3.4
Version 1 is smaller or equal to 1.0.0.1
Version .0.4 and version 0.0.4 are equal
Version .1. and version 0.1.0 are equal
Version 1 and version 1.0.0.0 are equal

Related

How can I find prime reversed numbers?

I have to write a program to check if the entered number has these qualifications:
A number that is prime it self, the reverse of that number is also prime, and the number's digits are prime numbers too (Like this number: 7523).
If the needs meet, it has to show "yes" when you enter and run the program otherwise "no".
I know both codes for prime and reverse numbers but I don't know how to merge them.
This is the code:
#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;
void prime_check(int x) {
int a, i, flag = 1;
cin >> a;
for (i = 2; i <= a / 2 && flag == 1; i++) {
if (a % i == 0)
flag = 0;
}
if (flag == 1)
cout << "prime";
else
break;
}
int main() {
int a, r, sum = 0;
cin >> a;
while (a != 0) {
r = a % 10;
sum = (sum * 10) + r;
a = a / 10;
}
}
The program has to check each digit of the number entered to see if it is prime or not in every step, then show "yes", but it doesn't work.
Welcome to the site.
I don't know how to merge them.
void prime_check(int n) { /*code*/ }
I'd understand that you don't know how to use this.
It's very easy!
int main()
{
int i = 0;
prime_check(i);
}
If you are confused about how the program executes, you could use a debugger to see where it goes. But since using a debugger can be a bit hard at first, I would suggest to add debug prints to see how the program executes.
This line of code prints the file and line number automatically.
std::cout << __FILE__ << ":" << __LINE__ << "\n";
I'd suggest to add it at the start of every function you wish to understand.
One step further is to make it into a macro, just so that it's easy to use.
#define DEBUGPRINT std::cout << __FILE__ << ":" << __LINE__ << "\n";
Check a working example here:
http://www.cpp.sh/2hpam
Note that it says <stdin>::14 instead of the filename because it's running on a webpage.
I have done some changes to your code, and added comments everywhere I've made changes. Check it out:
#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;
bool prime_check(int x) { // I have changed the datatype of this function to bool, because I want to store if all the digits are prime or not
int i, flag = 1; // Removed the variable a, because the function is already taking x as input
for (i = 2; i <= x / 2 && flag == 1; i++) {
if (x % i == 0)
flag = 0;
}
return flag == 1;
}
int main() {
int a, r, sum = 0, original; // added original variable, to store the number added
bool eachDigit = true; // added to keep track of each digit
cin >> a;
original = a;
while (a != 0) {
r = a % 10;
eachDigit = prime_check(r); // Here Each digit of entered number is checked for prime
sum = (sum * 10) + r;
a = a / 10;
}
if (eachDigit && prime_check(original) && prime_check(sum)) // At the end checking if all the digits, entered number and the revered number are prime
cout << "yes";
else
cout<< "no";
}
For optimization, you can check if the entered number is prime or not before starting that loop, and also you can break the loop right away if one of the digits of the entered number is not prime, Like this:
#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;
bool prime_check(int x) { // I have changed the datatype of this function to bool, because I want to store if all the digits are prime or not
int i, flag = 1; // Removed the variable a, because the function is already taking x as input
for (i = 2; i <= x / 2 && flag == 1; i++) {
if (x % i == 0)
flag = 0;
}
return flag == 1;
}
int main() {
int a, r, sum = 0;
bool eachDigit = true, entered; // added to keep track of each digit
cin >> a;
entered = prime_check(a);
while (a != 0 && entered && eachDigit) {
r = a % 10;
eachDigit = prime_check(r); // Here Each digit of entered number is checked for prime
sum = (sum * 10) + r;
a = a / 10;
}
if (eachDigit && entered && prime_check(sum)) // At the end checking if all the digits, entered number and the revered number are prime
cout << "yes";
else
cout<< "no";
}
Suppose you have an int variable num which you want to check for your conditions, you can achieve your target by the following:
int rev_num = 0;
bool flag = true; // Assuming 'num' satisfies your conditions, until proven otherwise
if (prime_check(num) == false) {
flag = false;
}
else while (num != 0) {
int digit = num % 10;
rev_num = rev_num * 10 + digit;
// Assuming your prime_check function returns 'true' and 'false'
if (prime_check(digit) == false) {
flag = false;
break;
}
num /= 10;
}
if (prime_check(rev_num) == false) {
flag = false;
}
if (flag) {
cout << "Number satisfies all conditions\n";
}
else {
cout << "Number does not satisfy all conditions\n";
}
The problem is that each of your functions is doing three things, 1) inputting the number, 2) testing the number and 3) outputting the result. To combine these functions you need to have two functions that are only testing the number. Then you can use both functions on the same number, instead of inputting two different numbers and printing two different results. You will need to use function parameters, to pass the input number to the two functions, and function return values to return the result of the test. The inputting of the number and the outputting of the result go in main. Here's an outline
// returns true if the number is a prime, false otherwise
bool prime_check(int a)
{
...
}
// returns true if the number is a reverse prime, false otherwise
bool reverse_prime_check(int a)
{
...
}
int main()
{
int a;
cin >> a;
if (prime_check(a) && reverse_prime_check(a))
cout << "prime\n";
else
cout << "not prime\n";
}
I'll leave you to write the functions themselves, and there's nothing here to do the digit checks either. I'll leave you do to that.

Checking whether a String is a Lapindrome or not [duplicate]

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How to find whether the string is a Lapindrome? [closed]
(2 answers)
Closed 2 years ago.
The question is to check whether a given string is a lapindrome or not(CodeChef). According to the question, Lapindrome is defined as a string which when split in the middle, gives two halves having the same characters and same frequency of each character.
I have tried solving the problem using C++ with the code below
#include <iostream>
#include<cstring>
using namespace std;
bool lapindrome(char s[],int len){
int firstHalf=0,secondHalf=0;
char c;
for(int i=0,j=len-1;i<j;i++,j--){
firstHalf += int(s[i]);
secondHalf += int(s[j]);
}
if(firstHalf == secondHalf){
return true;
}
else
return false;
}
int main() {
// your code goes here
int t,len;
bool result;
char s[1000];
cin>>t;
while(t){
cin>>s;
len = strlen(s);
result = lapindrome(s,len);
if(result == true)
cout<<"YES"<<endl;
else
cout<<"NO"<<endl;
--t;
}
return 0;
}
I have taken two count variables which will store the sum of ascii code of characters from first half and second half. Then those two variables are compared to check whether both the halves are equal or not.
I have tried the code on a couple of custom inputs and it works fine. But after I submit the code, the solution seems to be wrong.
Replace the lapindrome function to this one:
bool isLapindrome(std::string str)
{
int val1[MAX] = {0};
int val2[MAX] = {0};
int n = str.length();
if (n == 1)
return true;
for (int i = 0, j = n - 1; i < j; i++, j--)
{
val1[str[i] - 'a']++;
val2[str[j] - 'a']++;
}
for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++)
if (val1[i] != val2[i])
return false;
return true;
}
Example Output
Input a string here: asdfsasd
The string is NOT a lapindrome.
---
Input a string here: asdfsdaf
The string is a lapindrome.
Enjoy!
You're not counting frequencies of the characters, only their sum. You could simply split the string into halves, create two maps for character frequencies of both sides e.g. std::map containing the count for each character. Then You can compare both maps with something like std::equal to check the complete equality of the maps (to see whether the halves are the same in terms of character frequency).
Instead of counting the frequency of characters (in the two halfs of input string) in two arrays or maps, it's actually sufficient to count them in one as well.
For this, negative counts have to be allowed.
Sample code:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <unordered_map>
bool isLapindrome(const std::string &text)
{
std::unordered_map<unsigned char, int> freq;
// iterate until index (growing from begin) and
// 2nd index (shrinking from end) cross over
for (size_t i = 0, j = text.size(); i < j--; ++i) {
++freq[(unsigned char)text[i]]; // count characters of 1st half positive
--freq[(unsigned char)text[j]]; // count characters of 2nd half negative
}
// check whether positive and negative counts didn't result in 0
// for at least one counted char
for (const std::pair<unsigned char, int> &entry : freq) {
if (entry.second != 0) return false;
}
// Otherwise, the frequencies were balanced.
return true;
}
int main()
{
auto check = [](const std::string &text) {
std::cout << '\'' << text << "': "
<< (isLapindrome(text) ? "yes" : "no")
<< '\n';
};
check("");
check("abaaab");
check("gaga");
check("abccab");
check("rotor");
check("xyzxy");
check("abbaab");
}
Output:
'': yes
'abaaab': yes
'gaga': yes
'abccab': yes
'rotor': yes
'xyzxy': yes
'abbaab': no
Live Demo on coliru
Note:
About the empty input string, I was a bit uncertain. If it's required to not to count as Lapindrome then an additional check is needed in isLapindrome(). This could be achieved with changing the final
return true;
to
return !text.empty(); // Empty input is considered as false.
The problem with your code was, that you only compare the sum of the characters. What's meant by frequency is that you have to count the occurrence of each character. Instead of counting frequencies in maps like in the other solutions here, you can simply sort and compare the two strings.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
bool lapindrome(const std::string& s) {
// true if size = 1, false if size = 0
if(s.size() <= 1) return (s.size());
std::string first_half = s.substr(0, s.size() / 2);
std::sort(first_half.begin(), first_half.end());
std::string second_half = s.substr(s.size() / 2 + s.size() % 2);
std::sort(second_half.begin(), second_half.end());
return first_half == second_half;
}
// here's a shorter hacky alternative:
bool lapindrome_short(std::string s) {
if (s.size() <= 1) return (s.size());
int half = s.size() / 2;
std::sort(s.begin(), s.begin() + half);
std::sort(s.rbegin(), s.rbegin() + half); // reverse half
return std::equal(s.begin(), s.begin() + half, s.rbegin());
}
int main() {
int count;
std::string input;
std::cin >> count;
while(count--) {
std::cin >> input;
std::cout << input << ": "
<< (lapindrome(input) ? "YES" : "NO") << std::endl;
}
return 0;
}
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Compare all values of a array with a value from another array with C++

I have to compare two arrays, i need to know if the same name of a value in the other array exists. My problem is that it always returns only one matched value but there are two with the same name.
One array is 9 length big the other 3.
Is there maybe an easier solution because mine looks a little bit too complex, am I right?
Thank you in advance
Here is my Code:
for (int i=0;i<9;i++ )
{
int counter = 0;
int j = 0;
if (stockTest[j].getTestTitle() == products[i].getTitle())
{
cout << stockTest[j].getTestTitle() << " is available ";
counter = counter + 1; // counter + 1 because it is available
}
if ((j == 0) && (counter == 0) && (i == 9)) // try everything till i is 9 if counter is still 0 display message.
{
cout << stockTest[j].getTestTitle() << " is not available ";
}
if ((j == 1) && (counter == 0) && (i == 9)) // compare everything from stockTest[1], till i is 9 if counter is still 0 display message.
{
cout << stockTest[j].getTestTitle() << " is not available ";
}
if ((j == 2) && (counter == 0) && (i == 9)) //compare everything from stockTest[2], till i is 9 if counter is still 0 display message.
{
cout << stockTest[j].getTestTitle() << " is not available ";
}
if ( i == 9)
{
j = j + 1; //there are three values to compare in the other array so I will increment like this till 2 (the next if statement will end the loop if j == 2)
i = 0; // i again 0 so that again all 9 values from the array will be compared
counter = 0; // counter = 0 so that if the value is not found the counter == 0 is true
}
if ((j == 2) && ( i = 9 ))
i = 9; //i is now 9 which means that loop should end now however I can delete this line of code and the program would still display only one value. I expected an infinte loop if i delete it?
}
If the arrays can be sorted on title, then one solution would be to use std::set_intersection.
Pre C++ 11 code:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
#include <string>
#include <ostream>
struct stockTest
{
std::string title;
std::string getTitle() const { return title; }
stockTest(const std::string s) : title(s) {}
friend std::ostream& operator << (std::ostream& os, const stockTest&);
};
// for output purposes
std::ostream& operator << (std::ostream& os, const stockTest& s)
{
os << s.getTitle();
return os;
}
// compares two stockTest items
bool Comparer(const stockTest& f1, const stockTest& f2)
{
return f1.getTitle() < f2.getTitle();
}
using namespace std;
int main()
{
stockTest s1[] = {stockTest("abc"), stockTest("123"), stockTest("456")};
stockTest s2[] = {stockTest("123"), stockTest("Joe"), stockTest("789"), stockTest("456")};
// first, we sort our arrays
std::sort(s1, s1 + 3, Comparer);
std::sort(s2, s2 + 4, Comparer);
// this vector will contain the similar items
std::vector<stockTest> v_intersection;
// use set_intersection to do the hard work
std::set_intersection(s1, s1 + 3, s2, s2 + 4, std::back_inserter(v_intersection), Comparer);
// output the results
cout << "The similar names are: " << endl;
copy(v_intersection.begin(), v_intersection.end(), ostream_iterator<stockTest>(cout, "\n"));
}
Note that at the end, we created a vector that contains the common names. Also note that we had to sort the arrays first, plus provide set_intersection to know how the items are sorted (according to the Comparer functor).
Live Example: http://ideone.com/GA8ey0
First, you reinitialize counter to 0 every iteration of the first loop which probably has something to do with it.
Second, i would do something like the following with two for loops:
int counter = 0;
for(int i = 0; i<3; i++)
{
for(int j=0; j<9; j++)
{
if(array1[i] == array2[j])
{
counter++;
}
}
}
It is difficult to follow your logic as im not sure what you're using counter for or why (but breaking it down to simplicity, it is just a counter that stores how many times an equivalent value has been matched. Lets not over complicate it).
So its just a simple outer and inner for loop where you iterate and compare all 9 values of the second array to each value of the first array (3 values). I hope this helps.

Palindromic Integer Checker

One of our assignments in working with C++ in 1st year programming was to write a function that can check if a number is palindromic or not (e.g 16461). I'd upload my code but I don't even know where to begin when it comes to extracting digits from an integer or checking the number of digits in an integer. Any help or hints would be appreciated!
There are many ways to solve this. I like most the solution that builds the mirror number and checks whether it is identical to the original (even though, it is arguably not the most efficient way). The code should be something like:
bool isPalindrom(int n) {
int original = n;
int mirror = 0;
while (n) {
mirror = mirror * 10 + n % 10;
n /= 10;
}
return mirror == original;
}
You can use modulo arithmetic (% operator) to extract individual digits. An alternative would be to get the string representation of your number and work with that.
Hints:
"Number of digits" is a tricky thing to define, since you can always add 0's on the left-hand side and still have the same number. Read carefully and think carefully about how you want to define this.
The digits of an integer are associated with powers of 10 (recall 123 = 1*100 + 2*10 + 3*1), so to extract digits you need to be extracting powers of 10. The key operations are remainder and truncated division. What happens if you do (123 % 10)? How about (123 / 10)? How about ((123 / 10) % 10)?
Best convert the integer into a string first. Testing a string if it is a palindrome is much easier.
#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
bool isPalindrome(int value)
{
// convert integer into text
std::ostringstream oss;
oss << value;
std::string valueText = oss.str();
if (valueText.size()%2==0) {
return false;
}
for (int i = 0; i < (valueText.size()/2); ++i) {
if (valueText[i]!=valueText[valueText.size()-i-1]) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
int main()
{
for (int i = 0; i < 100000; ++i) {
if (isPalindrome(i)) {
std::cout << i << std::endl;
}
}
return 0;
}
First convert the integer into a std::string:
std::ostringstream oss;
oss << value;
std::string valueText = oss.str();
Now check if the string has a odd number of digits:
if (valueText.size()%2==0) {
return false;
}
If the string has a odd number of digits, test if the digits match:
for (int i = 0; i < (valueText.size()/2); ++i) {
if (valueText[i]!=valueText[valueText.size()-i-1]) {
return false;
}
}
Here's a solution that converts the integer to a C-style string and go from there.
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
using namespace std;
bool isPalindrome(int n) {
char s[256];
sprintf(s, "%d", n);
char *p = s, *q = &s[strlen(s) - 1];
while (*p == *q && p++ < q--)
;
return (p == q) || (*p == *q);
}
int main() {
int n = 1644451;
cout << isPalindrome(n) << endl;
return 0;
}
If performance is not an issue, and if you can do c++11, an easy to read solution :
template<class T>
bool isPalindrome(T i)
{
auto s = std::to_string(i);
auto s2 = s;
std::reverse(s.begin(), s.end());
return s == s2;
}
which is of course much slower than manually going through the digits, but imho is very readable...
call it with:
std::cout << isPalindrome<int>(12321);
std::cout << isPalindrome<int>(1232);

Check whether two strings are anagrams using C++

The program below I came up with for checking whether two strings are anagrams. Its working fine for small string but for larger strings ( i tried : listened , enlisted ) Its giving me a 'no !'
Help !
#include<iostream.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char str1[100], str2[100];
gets(str1);
gets(str2);
int i,j;
int n1=strlen(str1);
int n2=strlen(str2);
int c=0;
if(n1!=n2)
{
cout<<"\nThey are not anagrams ! ";
return 0;
}
else
{
for(i=0;i<n1;i++)
for(j=0;j<n2;j++)
if(str1[i]==str2[j])
++c;
}
if(c==n1)
cout<<"yes ! anagram !! ";
else
cout<<"no ! ";
system("pause");
return 0;
}
I am lazy, so I would use standard library functionality to sort both strings and then compare them:
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
bool is_anagram(std::string s1, std::string s2)
{
std::sort(s1.begin(), s1.end());
std::sort(s2.begin(), s2.end());
return s1 == s2;
}
A small optimization could be to check that the sizes of the strings are the same before sorting.
But if this algorithm proved to be a bottle-neck, I would temporarily shed some of my laziness and compare it against a simple counting solution:
Compare string lengths
Instantiate a count map, std::unordered_map<char, unsigned int> m
Loop over s1, incrementing the count for each char.
Loop over s2, decrementing the count for each char, then check that the count is 0
The algorithm also fails when asked to find if aa and aa are anagrams. Try tracing the steps of the algorithm mentally or in a debugger to find why; you'll learn more that way.
By the way.. The usual method for finding anagrams is counting how many times each letter appears in the strings. The counts should be equal for each letter. This approach has O(n) time complexity as opposed to O(n²).
bool areAnagram(char *str1, char *str2)
{
// Create two count arrays and initialize all values as 0
int count1[NO_OF_CHARS] = {0};
int count2[NO_OF_CHARS] = {0};
int i;
// For each character in input strings, increment count in
// the corresponding count array
for (i = 0; str1[i] && str2[i]; i++)
{
count1[str1[i]]++;
count2[str2[i]]++;
}
// If both strings are of different length. Removing this condition
// will make the program fail for strings like "aaca" and "aca"
if (str1[i] || str2[i])
return false;
// Compare count arrays
for (i = 0; i < NO_OF_CHARS; i++)
if (count1[i] != count2[i])
return false;
return true;
}
I see 2 main approaches below:
Sort then compare
Count the occurrences of each letter
It's interesting to see that Suraj's nice solution got one point (by me, at the time of writing) but a sort one got 22. The explanation is that performance wasn't in people's mind - and that's fine for short strings.
The sort implementation is only 3 lines long, but the counting one beats it square for long strings. It is much faster (O(N) versus O(NlogN)).
Got the following results with 500 MBytes long strings.
Sort - 162.8 secs
Count - 2.864 secs
Multi threaded Count - 3.321 secs
The multi threaded attempt was a naive one that tried to double the speed by counting in separate threads, one for each string. Memory access is the bottleneck and this is an example where multi threading makes things a bit worse.
I would be happy to see some idea that would speed up the count solution (think by someone good with memory latency issues, caches).
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
int is_anagram(char* str1, char* str2){
if(strlen(str1)==strspn(str1,str2) && strlen(str1)==strspn(str2,str1) &&
strlen(str1)==strlen(str2))
return 1;
return 0;
}
int main(){
char* str1 = "stream";
char* str2 = "master";
if(is_anagram(str1,str2))
printf("%s and %s are anagram to each other",str1,str2);
else
printf("%s and %s are not anagram to each other",str1,str2);
return 0;
}
#include<iostream>
#include<unordered_map>
using namespace std;
int checkAnagram (string &str1, string &str2)
{
unordered_map<char,int> count1, count2;
unordered_map<char,int>::iterator it1, it2;
int isAnagram = 0;
if (str1.size() != str2.size()) {
return -1;
}
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < str1.size(); i++) {
if (count1.find(str1[i]) != count1.end()){
count1[str1[i]]++;
} else {
count1.insert(pair<char,int>(str1[i], 1));
}
}
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < str2.size(); i++) {
if (count2.find(str2[i]) != count2.end()) {
count2[str2[i]]++;
} else {
count2.insert(pair<char,int>(str2[i], 1));
}
}
for (unordered_map<char, int>::iterator itUm1 = count1.begin(); itUm1 != count1.end(); itUm1++) {
unordered_map<char, int>::iterator itUm2 = count2.find(itUm1->first);
if (itUm2 != count2.end()) {
if (itUm1->second != itUm2->second){
isAnagram = -1;
break;
}
}
}
return isAnagram;
}
int main(void)
{
string str1("WillIamShakespeare");
string str2("IamaWeakishSpeller");
cout << "checkAnagram() for " << str1 << "," << str2 << " : " << checkAnagram(str1, str2) << endl;
return 0;
}
It's funny how sometimes the best questions are the simplest.
The problem here is how to deduce whether two words are anagrams - a word being essentially an unsorted multiset of chars.
We know we have to sort, but ideally we'd want to avoid the time-complexity of sort.
It turns out that in many cases we can eliminate many words that are dissimilar in linear time by running through them both and XOR-ing the character values into an accumulator. The total XOR of all characters in both strings must be zero if both strings are anagrams, regardless of ordering. This is because anything xored with itself becomes zero.
Of course the inverse is not true. Just because the accumulator is zero does not mean we have an anagram match.
Using this information, we can eliminate many non-anagrams without a sort, short-circuiting at least the non-anagram case.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
//
// return a sorted copy of a string
//
std::string sorted(std::string in)
{
std::sort(in.begin(), in.end());
return in;
}
//
// check whether xor-ing the values in two ranges results in zero.
// #pre first2 addresses a range that is at least as big as (last1-first1)
//
bool xor_is_zero(std::string::const_iterator first1,
std::string::const_iterator last1,
std::string::const_iterator first2)
{
char x = 0;
while (first1 != last1) {
x ^= *first1++;
x ^= *first2++;
}
return x == 0;
}
//
// deduce whether two strings are the same length
//
bool same_size(const std::string& l, const std::string& r)
{
return l.size() == r.size();
}
//
// deduce whether two words are anagrams of each other
// I have passed by const ref because we may not need a copy
//
bool is_anagram(const std::string& l, const std::string& r)
{
return same_size(l, r)
&& xor_is_zero(l.begin(), l.end(), r.begin())
&& sorted(l) == sorted(r);
}
// test
int main() {
using namespace std;
auto s1 = "apple"s;
auto s2 = "eppla"s;
cout << is_anagram(s1, s2) << '\n';
s2 = "pppla"s;
cout << is_anagram(s1, s2) << '\n';
return 0;
}
expected:
1
0
Try this:
// Anagram. Two words are said to be anagrams of each other if the letters from one word can be rearranged to form the other word.
// From the above definition it is clear that two strings are anagrams if all characters in both strings occur same number of times.
// For example "xyz" and "zxy" are anagram strings, here every character 'x', 'y' and 'z' occur only one time in both strings.
#include <map>
#include <string>
#include <cctype>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <unordered_map>
using namespace std;
bool IsAnagram_1( string w1, string w2 )
{
// Compare string lengths
if ( w1.length() != w2.length() )
return false;
sort( w1.begin(), w1.end() );
sort( w2.begin(), w2.end() );
return w1 == w2;
}
map<char, size_t> key_word( const string & w )
{
// Declare a map which is an associative container that will store a key value and a mapped value pairs
// The key value is a letter in a word and the maped value is the number of times this letter appears in the word
map<char, size_t> m;
// Step over the characters of string w and use each character as a key value in the map
for ( auto & c : w )
{
// Access the mapped value directly by its corresponding key using the bracket operator
++m[toupper( c )];
}
return ( m );
}
bool IsAnagram_2( const string & w1, const string & w2 )
{
// Compare string lengths
if ( w1.length() != w2.length() )
return false;
return ( key_word( w1 ) == key_word( w2 ) );
}
bool IsAnagram_3( const string & w1, const string & w2 )
{
// Compare string lengths
if ( w1.length() != w2.length() )
return false;
// Instantiate a count map, std::unordered_map<char, unsigned int> m
unordered_map<char, size_t> m;
// Loop over the characters of string w1 incrementing the count for each character
for ( auto & c : w1 )
{
// Access the mapped value directly by its corresponding key using the bracket operator
++m[toupper(c)];
}
// Loop over the characters of string w2 decrementing the count for each character
for ( auto & c : w2 )
{
// Access the mapped value directly by its corresponding key using the bracket operator
--m[toupper(c)];
}
// Check to see if the mapped values are all zeros
for ( auto & c : w2 )
{
if ( m[toupper(c)] != 0 )
return false;
}
return true;
}
int main( )
{
string word1, word2;
cout << "Enter first word: ";
cin >> word1;
cout << "Enter second word: ";
cin >> word2;
if ( IsAnagram_1( word1, word2 ) )
cout << "\nAnagram" << endl;
else
cout << "\nNot Anagram" << endl;
if ( IsAnagram_2( word1, word2 ) )
cout << "\nAnagram" << endl;
else
cout << "\nNot Anagram" << endl;
if ( IsAnagram_3( word1, word2 ) )
cout << "\nAnagram" << endl;
else
cout << "\nNot Anagram" << endl;
system("pause");
return 0;
}
In this approach I took care of empty strings and repeated characters as well. Enjoy it and comment any limitation.
#include <iostream>
#include <map>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
bool is_anagram( const string a, const string b ){
std::map<char, int> m;
int count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < a.length(); i++) {
map<char, int>::iterator it = m.find(a[i]);
if (it == m.end()) {
m.insert(m.begin(), pair<char, int>(a[i], 1));
} else {
m[a[i]]++;
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < b.length(); i++) {
map<char, int>::iterator it = m.find(b[i]);
if (it == m.end()) {
m.insert(m.begin(), pair<char, int>(b[i], 1));
} else {
m[b[i]]--;
}
}
if (a.length() <= b.length()) {
for (int i = 0; i < a.length(); i++) {
if (m[a[i]] >= 0) {
count++;
} else
return false;
}
if (count == a.length() && a.length() > 0)
return true;
else
return false;
} else {
for (int i = 0; i < b.length(); i++) {
if (m[b[i]] >= 0) {
count++;
} else {
return false;
}
}
if (count == b.length() && b.length() > 0)
return true;
else
return false;
}
return true;
}
Check if the two strings have identical counts for each unique char.
bool is_Anagram_String(char* str1,char* str2){
int first_len=(int)strlen(str1);
int sec_len=(int)strlen(str2);
if (first_len!=sec_len)
return false;
int letters[256] = {0};
int num_unique_chars = 0;
int num_completed_t = 0;
for(int i=0;i<first_len;++i){
int char_letter=(int)str1[i];
if(letters[char_letter]==0)
++num_unique_chars;
++letters[char_letter];
}
for (int i = 0; i < sec_len; ++i) {
int c = (int) str2[i];
if (letters[c] == 0) { // Found more of char c in t than in s.
return false;
}
--letters[c];
if (letters[c] == 0) {
++num_completed_t;
if (num_completed_t == num_unique_chars) {
// it’s a match if t has been processed completely
return i == sec_len - 1;
}
}
}
return false;}
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
using namespace std;
const int MAX = 100;
char cadA[MAX];
char cadB[MAX];
bool chrLocate;
int i,m,n,j, contaChr;
void buscaChr(char [], char []);
int main() {
cout << "Ingresa CadA: ";
cin.getline(cadA, sizeof(cadA));
cout << "Ingresa CadB: ";
cin.getline(cadB, sizeof(cadA));
if ( strlen(cadA) == strlen(cadB) ) {
buscaChr(cadA,cadB);
} else {
cout << "No son Anagramas..." << endl;
}
return 0;
}
void buscaChr(char a[], char b[]) {
j = 0;
contaChr = 0;
for ( i = 0; ( (i < strlen(a)) && contaChr < 2 ); i++ ) {
for ( m = 0; m < strlen(b); m++ ) {
if ( a[i] == b[m]) {
j++;
contaChr++;
a[i] = '-';
b[m] = '+';
} else { contaChr = 0; }
}
}
if ( j == strlen(a)) {
cout << "SI son Anagramas..." << endl;
} else {
cout << "No son Anagramas..." << endl;
}
}
Your algorithm is incorrect. You're checking each character in the first word to see how many times that character appears in the second word. If the two words were 'aaaa', and 'aaaa', then that would give you a count of 16. A small alteration to your code would allow it to work, but give a complexity of N^2 as you have a double loop.
for(i=0;i<n1;i++)
for(j=0;j<n2;j++)
if(str1[i]==str2[j])
++c, str2[j] = 0; // 'cross off' letters as they are found.
I done some tests with anagram comparisons. Comparing two strings of 72 characters each (the strings are always true anagrams to get maximum number of comparisons), performing 256 same-tests with a few different STL containers...
template<typename STORAGE>
bool isAnagram(const string& s1, const string& s2, STORAGE& asciiCount)
{
for(auto& v : s1)
{
asciiCount[v]++;
}
for(auto& v : s2)
{
if(--asciiCount[static_cast<unsigned char>(v)] == -1)
{
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
Where STORAGE asciiCount =
map<char, int> storage; // 738us
unordered_map<char, int> storage; // 260us
vector<int> storage(256); // 43us
// g++ -std=c++17 -O3 -Wall -pedantic
This is the fastest I can get.
These are crude tests using coliru online compiler + and std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point for measurements, however they give a general idea of performance gains.
vector has the same performance, uses only 256 bytes, although strings are limited to 255 characters in length (also change to: --asciiCount[static_cast(v)] == 255 for unsigned char counting).
Assuming vector is the fastest. An improvement would be to just allocate a C style array unsigned char asciiCount[256]; on the stack (since STL containers allocate their memory dynamically on the heap)
You could probably reduce this storage to 128 bytes, 64 or even 32 bytes (ascii chars are typically in range 0..127, while A-Z+a-z 64.127, and just upper or lower case 64..95 or 96...127) although not sure what gains would be found from fitting this inside a cache line or half.
Any better ways to do this? For Speed, Memory, Code Elegance?
1. Simple and fast way with deleting matched characters
bool checkAnagram(string s1, string s2) {
for (char i : s1) {
unsigned int pos = s2.find(i,0);
if (pos != string::npos) {
s2.erase(pos,1);
} else {
return false;
}
}
return s2.empty();
}
2. Conversion to prime numbers. Beautiful but very expensive, requires special Big Integer type for long strings.
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_numbers
int primes[255] = {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, ... , 1613};
bool checkAnagramPrimes(string s1, string s2) {
long c1 = 1;
for (char i : s1) {
c1 = c1 * primes[i];
}
long c2 = 1;
for (char i : s2) {
c2 = c2 * primes[i];
if (c2 > c1) {
return false;
}
}
return c1 == c2;
}
string key="listen";
string key1="silent";
string temp=key1;
int len=0;
//assuming both strings are of equal length
for (int i=0;i<key.length();i++){
for (int j=0;j<key.length();j++){
if(key[i]==temp[j]){
len++;
temp[j] = ' ';//to deal with the duplicates
break;
}
}
}
cout << (len==key.length()); //if true: means the words are anagrams
Instead of using dot h header which is deprecated in modern c++.
Try this solution.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <map>
int main(){
std::string word_1 {};
std::cout << "Enter first word: ";
std::cin >> word_1;
std::string word_2 {};
std::cout << "Enter second word: ";
std::cin >> word_2;
if(word_1.length() == word_2.length()){
std::map<char, int> word_1_map{};
std::map<char, int> word_2_map{};
for(auto& c: word_1)
word_1_map[std::tolower(c)]++;
for(auto& c: word_2)
word_2_map[std::tolower(c)]++;
if(word_1_map == word_2_map){
std::cout << "Anagrams" << std::endl;
}
else{
std::cout << "Not Anagrams" << std::endl;
}
}else{
std::cout << "Length Mismatch" << std::endl;
}
}
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
#define NO_OF_CHARS 256
int main()
{ bool ans = true;
string word1 = "rest";
string word2 = "tesr";
unordered_map<char,int>maps;
for(int i = 0 ; i <5 ; i++)
{
maps[word1[i]] +=1;
}
for(int i = 0 ; i <5 ; i++)
{
maps[word2[i]]-=1 ;
}
for(auto i : maps)
{
if(i.second!=0)
{
ans = false;
}
}
cout<<ans;
}
Well if you don't want to sort than this code will give you perfect output.
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(){
string a="gf da";
string b="da gf";
int al,bl;
int counter =0;
al =a.length();
bl =b.length();
for(int i=0 ;i<al;i++){
for(int j=0;j<bl;j++){
if(a[i]==b[j]){
if(j!=bl){
b[j]=b[b.length()-counter-1];
bl--;
counter++;
break;
}else{
bl--;
counter++;
}
}
}
}
if(counter==al){
cout<<"true";
}
else{
cout<<"false";
}
return 0;
}
Here is the simplest and fastest way to check for anagrams
bool anagram(string a, string b) {
int a_sum = 0, b_sum = 0, i = 0;
while (a[i] != '\0') {
a_sum += (int)a[i]; // (int) cast not necessary
b_sum += (int)b[i];
i++;
}
return a_sum == b_sum;
}
Simply adds the ASCII values and checks if the sums are equal.
For example:
string a = "nap" and string b = "pan"
a_sum = 110 + 97 + 112 = 319
b_sum = 112 + 97 + 110 = 319