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451. Sort Characters by Frequency

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Problem Statement

451. Sort Characters By Frequency

Medium


Given a string s, sort it in decreasing order based on the frequency of the characters. The frequency of a character is the number of times it appears in the string.

Return the sorted string. If there are multiple answers, return any of them.

 

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 both "cccaaa" and "aaaccc" are valid answers.
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:

C++

Source file
class Solution {
public:
    string frequencySort(string s) {
        vector<string> v(10+26+26,"");
        for(auto c:s)
            if(c<='z' && c>='a')
                v[c-'a'+10]+=c;
            else if(c<='Z' && c>='A')
                v[c-'A'+36]+=c;
            else v[c-'0']+=c;
        sort(v.begin(), v.end(), [](string a, string b){return a.size()>b.size();});
        string res="";
        for(auto x:v)
            res+=x;
        return res;
    }
};