Anagram Coding Challenge | Dataford Interview Questions

Write a program to solve an anagram problem.

Implement are_anagrams(s, t) to return True when the two strings contain the same alphanumeric characters with the same frequencies, regardless of letter case, spaces, or punctuation. Return False otherwise.

Input and Output

The function accepts two strings and returns a boolean. Inputs contain ASCII letters, digits, spaces, and punctuation.

Constraints

0 <= len(s), len(t) <= 5000
Inputs contain ASCII letters, digits, spaces, and punctuation
Comparison is case-insensitive
Spaces and punctuation must be ignored

Function Signature

def are_anagrams(s, t):

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