Viasat interview question

how to find a string has duplicate elements or not

Interview Answers

Anonymous

9 Mar 2017

def func(x): y = {} for i in x: if i in y: y[i]+=1 else: y[i]=1 for i,j in y.items(): if j > 1: return "Duplicates Present" return "No Duplicates" print (func("Raviteja"))

Anonymous

13 Mar 2017

Approach taken by Raviteja works optimally in O(n) time, but takes additional O(n) space over this approach which uses bit manipulation. Algorithm used below uses O(n) time and O(1) space. def is_unique_characters(input_string): # Checks corner case if len(input_string)>256: return False val = 0 checker = 0 for ch in input_string: val = ord(ch)-ord('a') # When element repeats if (checker & (1 0: return False checker |= (1<

Anonymous

13 Mar 2017

**Corrected** Approach taken by Raviteja works optimally in O(n) time, but takes additional O(n) space over this approach which uses bit manipulation. Algorithm used below uses O(n) time and O(1) space works for characters and integers. def is_unique_characters(input_string): # Checks corner case if len(input_string)>256: return False val = 0 checker = 0 for ch in input_string: val = ord(ch)-ord('a') # When element repeats if (checker & (1 0): return False checker |= (1<