Palindrome and Anagram Coding | Dataford Interview Questions

Cvent event configuration tools may validate short text fields before processing them. Given three strings, determine whether the first is a palindrome and whether the second and third are anagrams.

A palindrome reads identically from left to right and right to left. An anagram contains exactly the same characters with the same frequencies, possibly in a different order. Treat characters as case-sensitive and include spaces and punctuation in both checks.

Formal Specification

Implement check_strings(s, a, b):

Return true for the first result if s is a palindrome, otherwise return false.
Return true for the second result if a and b are anagrams, otherwise return false.
Return the results as a two-element list: [is_palindrome, are_anagrams].

Constraints

0 <= len(s), len(a), len(b) <= 10^5
Strings contain printable ASCII characters
Comparisons are case-sensitive
Spaces and punctuation are treated as regular characters

Function Signature

def check_strings(s, a, b):

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