How to find anagrams in a sentence ?

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Kaustubh · Accepted Answer

Hey
Take all alphabet and map with a prime number. 
Like A = 2, B=3, C=5, D=7, E=11 etc.

Now read each word in the sentence and each word char by char and make a product of those with mapping prime num.

And store them in a map with key as product.

Each anagram will have same product of prime numbers.

Giovanni · Answer

Do you mean each word could be an anagram of another in the same sentence? Or you have a list of words? How big is the input?

Anonymous · Answer

1.  prep your lexicon, sort each word of your dictionary, the resort the whole dictionary.
2.  all duplicate entries are anagrams, make a list of duplicates.
3.  sort each word in your sentence, and check if it exists in your new lexicon.  A hashmap is a good way to go, but a binary search will work fine in a pinch.
4. consider building a couple indexes to make the process more robust.

Anonymous · Answer

Use Hashmaps with words as key to find anagrams

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