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A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman.

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How to check if two words are anagrams

I have a program that shows you whether two words are anagrams of one another. There are a few examples that will not work properly and I would appreciate any help, although if it were not advanced that would be great, as I am a 1st year programmer.…
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Finding anagrams for a given word

Two words are anagrams if one of them has exactly same characters as that of the another word. Example : Anagram & Nagaram are anagrams (case-insensitive). Now there are many questions similar to this . A couple of approaches to find whether two…
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Using Python, find anagrams for a list of words

Suppose I have a list of strings like ["car", "tree", "boy", "girl", "arc"] etc. I want to find groups of anagrams in that list - in this case, (car, arc). I tried writing code to loop over the list and compare pairs of strings, but how do I…
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Optimizing very often used anagram function

I have written a function that determines whether two words are anagrams. Word A is an anagram of word B if you can build word B out of A just by rearranging the letters, e.g.: lead is anagram of deal This is my function: bool…
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Anagrams finder in javascript

I am supposed to write a program in JavaScript to find all the anagrams within a series of words provided. e.g.: monk, konm, nkom, bbc, cbb, dell, ledl, llde The output should be categorised into rows: 1. monk konm, nkom; 2. bbc cbb; 3. dell ledl,…
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Algorithm for grouping anagram words

Given a set of words, we need to find the anagram words and display each category alone using the best algorithm. input: man car kile arc none like output: man car arc kile like none The best solution I am developing now is based on an hashtable,…
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Ruby anagram solver

I am wanting to write a anagram type solver in Ruby but it will work against a list of words, like so. List of words is: the these one owner I would allow the user to input some letters, e.g noe, and it would search the word list for words that it…
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Code golf: find all anagrams

A word is an anagram if the letters in that word can be re-arranged to form a different word. Task: The shortest source code by character count to find all sets of anagrams given a word list. Spaces and new lines should be counted as…
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How to use the 'in' operator in guard clauses?

I am trying to write an anagram checker in Elixir. It takes 2 words, the first one is a reference, the second is to be tested as a possible anagram of the first. I am trying to write it with recursion and pattern matching. I get an error about using…
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How can I check if two strings are anagrams of each other?

I am trying to write a program that accepts two strings from the user: s1 = input("Please enter a word:") s2 = input("Please enter another word:") How can I output True if the two are anagrams and False otherwise? If you found this question from a…
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Algorithm to get a list of all words that are anagrams of all substrings (scrabble)?

Eg if input string is helloworld I want the output to be like: do he we low hell hold roll well word hello lower world ... all the way up to the longest word that is an anagram of a substring of helloworld. Like in Scrabble for example. The input…
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Why am i getting " Duplicate modifier for the type Test" and how to fix it

I was trying to make a method that returns true if given "Strings" are anagrams. unfortunately i cant even test it and i don know what is wrong. The markers at left says: Multiple markers at this line - Breakpoint:Test - Duplicate…
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Java 8 Stream function to group a List of anagrams into a Map of Lists

Java 8 is about to be released... While learning about Streams, I got into a scenario about grouping anagrams using one of the new ways. The problem I'm facing is that I can't find a way to group Strings objects using the map/reduce functions.…
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Anagram algorithm in java

I would like to make anagram algorithm but This code doesn't work. Where is my fault ? For example des and sed is anagram but output is not anagram Meanwhile I have to use string method. not array. :) public static boolean isAnagram(String s1 ,…
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Algorithm to remove a character from a word such that the reduced word is still a word in dictionary

Here is the scenario, Given a word remove a single character from a word in every step such that the reduced word is still a word in dictionary. Continue till no characters are left. Here is the catch: You need to remove the right character, for eg.…
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