Ransom Note
Given two strings ransomNote and magazine, return true if ransomNote can be constructed by using the letters from magazine and false otherwise.
Each letter in magazine can only be used once in ransomNote.
Example 1
Input
ransomNote = "a", magazine = "b"Output
falseThe letter
a cannot be constructed from magazine because magazine only contains b.Example 2
Input
ransomNote = "aa", magazine = "ab"Output
falseThe two letters in
ransomNote cannot be constructed because magazine contains only one a.Constraints
- 1 <= ransomNote.length, magazine.length <= 10^5
- ransomNote and magazine consist of lowercase English letters.
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