Question
Given a string, sort it in decreasing order based on the frequency of characters.
Example 1:
Input:
"tree"
Output:
"eert"
Explanation:
'e' appears twice while 'r' and 't' both appear once.
So 'e' must appear before both 'r' and 't'. Therefore "eetr" is also a valid answer.
Example 2:
Input:
"cccaaa"
Output:
"cccaaa"
Explanation:
Both 'c' and 'a' appear three times, so "aaaccc" is also a valid answer.
Note that "cacaca" is incorrect, as the same characters must be together.
Example 3:
Input:
"Aabb"
Output:
"bbAa"
Explanation:
"bbaA" is also a valid answer, but "Aabb" is incorrect.
Note that 'A' and 'a' are treated as two different characters.
Solution
TODO
Code
public class Solution {
public String frequencySort(String s) {
Map<Character, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
if (map.containsKey(c)) {
map.put(c, map.get(c) + 1);
} else {
map.put(c, 1);
}
}
// bucket sort
List<Character> [] bucket = new List[s.length() + 1];
for (char key : map.keySet()) {
int frequency = map.get(key);
if (bucket[frequency] == null) {
bucket[frequency] = new ArrayList<>();
}
bucket[frequency].add(key);
}
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int pos = bucket.length - 1; pos >=0; pos--) {
if (bucket[pos] != null) {
for (char num : bucket[pos]) {
for (int i = 0; i < map.get(num); i++) {
sb.append(num);
}
}
}
}
return sb.toString();
}
}
Performance
TODO