791 - Custom Sort String.md

Author: revanth1718

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+id: custom-sort-string
+title: Custom Sort String
+sidebar_label: 791 - Custom Sort String
+tags: [String, Sorting]
+description: Given two strings, sort the second string based on the custom order defined by the first string.
+---
+
+## Problem Statement
+
+### Problem Description
+
+You are given two strings `order` and `s`. All the characters in `order` are unique and were sorted in some custom order previously.
+
+Permute the characters of `s` so that they match the order in which characters appear in `order`. More specifically, if a character `x` occurs before a character `y` in `order`, then `x` should occur before `y` in the permuted string.
+
+Return any permutation of `s` that satisfies this property.
+
+### Example
+
+**Example 1:**
+```
+Input: order = "cba", s = "abcd"
+Output: "cbad"
+```
+**Explanation:** "a", "b", "c" appear in order, so the order of "a", "b", "c" should be "c", "b", and "a".
+
+
+**Example 2:**
+```
+Input: order = "bcafg", s = "abcd"
+Output: "bcad"
+```
+**Explanation:** The characters "b", "c", and "a" from order dictate the order for the characters in s. The character "d" in s does not appear in order, so its position is flexible.
+
+
+### Constraints
+
+- 1 <= `order.length` <= 26
+- 1 <= `s.length` <= 200
+- `order` and `s` consist of lowercase English letters.
+- All the characters in `order` are unique.
+
+## Solution
+
+### Intuition
+
+To solve this problem, we need to rearrange the characters of string `s` according to the custom order defined by the string `order`. The key steps involve:
+
+1. **Counting Characters in `s`:** Use a frequency map (or dictionary) to count the occurrences of each character in `s`.
+2. **Arranging Characters According to `order`:** Iterate over `order` and construct the result string by adding characters from `s` in the sequence specified by `order`.
+3. **Adding Remaining Characters:** After processing `order`, append the remaining characters in `s` that are not present in `order`.
+
+### Time and Space Complexity
+
+- **Time Complexity:** The time complexity is $O(n + m)$, where $n$ is the length of `s` and $m$ is the length of `order`. This includes counting the frequency of characters in `s` and constructing the output string.
+
+- **Space Complexity:** The space complexity is $O(n + m)$ due to storing the frequency map and the output string.
+
+### Code
+
+#### C++
+
+```cpp
+class Solution {
+public:
+    string customSortString(string order, string s) {
+        unordered_map<char, int> count;
+        for (char c : s) {
+            count[c]++;
+        }
+
+        string result;
+        for (char c : order) {
+            if (count.count(c)) {
+                result.append(count[c], c);
+                count.erase(c);
+            }
+        }
+
+        for (const auto& [c, freq] : count) {
+            result.append(freq, c);
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+};
+```
+#### Python
+```python
+class Solution:
+    def customSortString(self, order: str, s: str) -> str:
+        count = {}
+        for char in s:
+            count[char] = count.get(char, 0) + 1
+        
+        result = []
+        for char in order:
+            if char in count:
+                result.append(char * count[char])
+                del count[char]
+        
+        for char, freq in count.items():
+            result.append(char * freq)
+        
+        return ''.join(result)
+```
+#### Java
+```java
+class Solution {
+    public String customSortString(String order, String s) {
+        Map<Character, Integer> count = new HashMap<>();
+        for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
+            count.put(c, count.getOrDefault(c, 0) + 1);
+        }
+
+        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
+        for (char c : order.toCharArray()) {
+            if (count.containsKey(c)) {
+                int freq = count.get(c);
+                for (int i = 0; i < freq; i++) {
+                    result.append(c);
+                }
+                count.remove(c);
+            }
+        }
+
+        for (Map.Entry<Character, Integer> entry : count.entrySet()) {
+            char c = entry.getKey();
+            int freq = entry.getValue();
+            for (int i = 0; i < freq; i++) {
+                result.append(c);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return result.toString();
+    }
+}
+```
+Since "d" does not appear in order, it can be at any position in the returned string. "dcba", "cdba", "cbda" are also valid outputs.