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Ganesh Shetty
Ganesh Shetty

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How to find if two strings are isomorphic to each other in Javascript

Two strings str1 and str2 are called isomorphic if there is a one-to-one mapping possible for every character of str1 to every character of str2. And all occurrences of every character in ‘str1’ map to the same character in ‘str2’.

Input:  str1 = "aab", str2 = "xxy"
Output: True
'a' is mapped to 'x' and 'b' is mapped to 'y'.

Input:  str1 = "aab", str2 = "xyz"
Output: False
One occurrence of 'a' in str1 has 'x' in str2 and 
other occurrence of 'a' has 'y'.
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Solution is very simple , we will consider every character of ‘str1’ and check if all occurrences of it map to the same character in ‘str2’.

We keep a hash map,We store each character in str1 as key and character in str2 for the same index as value,

<script>
    function isIsomorphic(str1, str2) {
        var obj = {};
        for (let i = 0; i < str1.length; i++) {
            if (!obj[str1[i]]) {
                obj[str1[i]] = str2[i];
            } else {
                if (obj[str1[i]] !== str2[i]) {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
    console.log(isIsomorphic("abc", "xyz"));
</script>
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Hope this helps someone, Please comment if you need more such algorithm question in Javascript

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Sugandha Duhan

The above solution will not work for "badc", "baba". Also in isomorphic string if s1 can be mapped to s2, vice versa should also be true.
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