Ransom Note

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383.Ransom Note

Given two strings ransomNote and magazine, return true if ransomNote can be constructed by using the letters from magazine and false otherwise.

Each letter in magazine can only be used once in ransomNote.

Example 1:

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Input: ransomNote = "a", magazine = "b"
Output: false

Example 2:

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Input: ransomNote = "aa", magazine = "ab"
Output: false

Example 3:

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Input: ransomNote = "aa", magazine = "aab"
Output: true

时间复杂度：O(m+n)
空间复杂度：O(S)，S为字符集大小

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class Solution {
public:
    bool canConstruct(string ransomNote, string magazine) {
        if (ransomNote.size() > magazine.size()) {
            return false;
        }
        vector<int> cnt(26);
        for (auto & c : magazine) {
            cnt[c - 'a']++;
        }
        for (auto & c : ransomNote) {
            cnt[c - 'a']--;
            if (cnt[c - 'a'] < 0) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
};