{leetcode}/problems/similar-string-groups/[LeetCode - Similar String Groups^]
Two strings X
and Y
are similar if we can swap two letters (in different positions) of X
, so that it equals Y
. Also two strings X
and Y
are similar if they are equal.
For example, "tars"
and "rats"
are similar (swapping at positions 0
and 2
), and "rats"
and "arts"
are similar, but "star"
is not similar to "tars"
, "rats"
, or "arts"
.
Together, these form two connected groups by similarity: {"tars", "rats", "arts"}
and {"star"}
. Notice that "tars"
and "arts"
are in the same group even though they are not similar. Formally, each group is such that a word is in the group if and only if it is similar to at least one other word in the group.
We are given a list A
of strings. Every string in A
is an anagram of every other string in A
. How many groups are there?
Example 1:
Input: A = ["tars","rats","arts","star"] Output: 2
Constraints:
-
1 ⇐ A.length ⇐ 2000
-
1 ⇐ A[i].length ⇐ 1000
-
A.length * A[i].length ⇐ 20000
-
All words in
A
consist of lowercase letters only. -
All words in
A
have the same length and are anagrams of each other. -
The judging time limit has been increased for this question.
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