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Anagrams Across Queries
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Anagrams Across Queries

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

2 string arrays are given one is list of words and another is queries list, For every query find how many words are anagrams

Asked in the OA stage. Treat matching as case-insensitive, and count duplicate words separately.

Output

  1. Return one row per query, including queries with no matches.
  2. Include query_id, query_text, and anagram_count.
  3. Sort by query_id ascending.

Schema

words
ColumnTypeDescription
word_idPKINTUnique identifier for a word
wordVARCHAR(100)Word to compare against queries
queries
ColumnTypeDescription
query_idPKINTUnique identifier for a query
query_textVARCHAR(100)Query word whose anagram matches must be counted
Tableswordsqueries
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