2025-08-18 16:26:10 +0000 UTC
Rearrange Characters to Make Target String
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class Solution:
def rearrangeCharacters(self, s: str, target: str) -> int:
freqs1, freqs2 = [0] * 26, [0] * 26
for char in s:
freqs1[ord(char) - 97] += 1
for char in target:
freqs2[ord(char) - 97] += 1
count = math.inf
for i in range(26):
freq1, freq2 = freqs1[i], freqs2[i]
if freq2 == 0:
continue
cur_count = freq1 // freq2
if cur_count == 0:
return 0
if cur_count < count:
count = cur_count
return count