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205. Isomorphic Strings

Given two strings s and t, determine if they are isomorphic.

Two strings s and t are isomorphic if the characters in s can be replaced to get t.

All occurrences of a character must be replaced with another character while preserving the order of characters. No two characters may map to the same character, but a character may map to itself.

Example 1:

Input: s = "egg", t = "add"

Output: true

Explanation:

The strings s and t can be made identical by:

  • Mapping 'e' to 'a'.
  • Mapping 'g' to 'd'.

Example 2:

Input: s = "foo", t = "bar"

Output: false

Explanation:

The strings s and t can not be made identical as 'o' needs to be mapped to both 'a' and 'r'.

Example 3:

Input: s = "paper", t = "title"

Output: true

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 5 * 104
  • t.length == s.length
  • s and t consist of any valid ascii character.

Solution:

class Solution {
    public boolean isIsomorphic(String s, String t) {
        if (s.length() != t.length()){
            return false;
        }

        if (s.length() == 1){
            return true;
        }

        char[] sArray = s.toCharArray();
        Map<Character, Character> map = new HashMap<>();

        for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++){
            if (map.containsKey(s.charAt(i)) || map.containsValue(t.charAt(i))){
                continue;
            }else{
                map.put(s.charAt(i), t.charAt(i));
            }
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < sArray.length; i++){
            char cur = sArray[i];
            if (!map.containsKey(cur)){
                return false;
            }else{
                char replaceCur = map.get(cur);
                sArray[i] = replaceCur;
            }
        }

        String replace = new String(sArray);

        if (replace.equals(t)){
            return true;
        }else{
            return false;
        }

    }
}

// TC: O(n)
// SC: O(n)