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451. Sort Characters By Frequency

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Description

Given a string s, sort it in decreasing order based on the frequency of characters, and return the sorted string.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "tree"
Output: "eert"
Explanation: 'e' appears twice while 'r' and 't' both appear once.
So 'e' must appear before both 'r' and 't'. Therefore "eetr" is also a valid answer.

Example 2:

Input: s = "cccaaa"
Output: "aaaccc"
Explanation: Both 'c' and 'a' appear three times, so "aaaccc" is also a valid answer.
Note that "cacaca" is incorrect, as the same characters must be together.

Example 3:

Input: s = "Aabb"
Output: "bbAa"
Explanation: "bbaA" is also a valid answer, but "Aabb" is incorrect.
Note that 'A' and 'a' are treated as two different characters.

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 5 * 105
• s consists of English letters and digits.

Solutions

Python3

class Solution:
    def frequencySort(self, s: str) -> str:
        if not s or len(s) < 3:
            return s
        counter = collections.Counter(s)
        buckets = [[] for _ in range(len(s) + 1)]
        for c, freq in counter.items():
            buckets[freq].append(c)
        res = []
        for i in range(len(s), -1, -1):
            if buckets[i]:
                for c in buckets[i]:
                    res.append(c * i)
        return ''.join(res)

Java

class Solution {
    public String frequencySort(String s) {
        if (s == null || s.length() < 3) {
            return s;
        }
        Map<Character, Integer> counter = new HashMap<>();
        for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); ++i) {
            counter.put(s.charAt(i), counter.getOrDefault(s.charAt(i), 0) + 1);
        }
        List<Character>[] buckets = new List[s.length() + 1];
        for (Map.Entry<Character, Integer> entry : counter.entrySet()) {
            char c = entry.getKey();
            int freq = entry.getValue();
            if (buckets[freq] == null) {
                buckets[freq] = new ArrayList<>();
            }
            buckets[freq].add(c);
        }
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = s.length(); i >= 0; --i) {
            if (buckets[i] != null) {
                for (char c : buckets[i]) {
                    for (int j = 0; j < i; ++j) {
                        sb.append(c);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

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