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Common Character Count!!Swift Coding Challenge!!

✨ thetealpickle πŸ“± on May 21, 2019

Swift coding challenge!! Common Character Count, given two strings find the number of common characters between them. πŸ˜› Level: Easy πŸ˜› I have i...
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Gualtiero Frigerio

If I was given this question during an interview I'd have asked for clarification, as to me there are 2 common characters between the two strings: a and c. Why do I need to count a 2 times?
Under your assumption, the code you posted is correct and I think it is the easiest.
Only a little detail: characters is deprecated and you can iterate through the string by writing
for char in string {
...
}

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✨ thetealpickle πŸ“±

Thanks for the tip about characters πŸ‘, I didn't realize it was deprecated. Back to for loops 😁