group anagrams


Given an array of strings, group anagrams together.

For example, given: ["eat", "tea", "tan", "ate", "nat", "bat"],
Return:

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[
["ate", "eat","tea"],
["nat","tan"],
["bat"]
]

Note: All inputs will be in lower-case.


Solution

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public class {
public List<List<String>> groupAnagrams(String[] strs) {
if(strs == null ||strs.length == 0) return new ArrayList<List<String>>();
HashMap<String,List<String>> map = new HashMap<String,List<String>>();
Arrays.sort(strs);
for(String each : strs) {
char[] e = each.toCharArray();
Arrays.sort(e);
String s = String.valueOf(e);
if(!map.containsKey(s))
map.put(s,new ArrayList<String>());
map.get(s).add(each);
}
return new ArrayList<List<String>>(map.values());
}
}