Ransom Note (383/Easy) 勒索信

Given an arbitrary ransom note string and another string containing letters from all the magazines, write a function that will return true if the ransom note can be constructed from the magazines ; otherwise, it will return false.

Each letter in the magazine string can only be used once in your ransom note.

Note:
You may assume that both strings contain only lowercase letters.

canConstruct("a", "b") -> false

canConstruct("aa", "ab") -> false

canConstruct("aa", "aab") -> true

class Solution {
    //Java O(n) Solution---Easy to understand
    public boolean canConstruct(String ransomNote, String magazine) {
        int[] arr = new int[26];
        for (int i = 0; i < magazine.length(); i++) {
            arr[magazine.charAt(i) - 'a']++;
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < ransomNote.length(); i++) {
            if(--arr[ransomNote.charAt(i)-'a'] < 0) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
}

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