DIY: Group Anagrams
Solve the interview question "Group Anagrams" in this lesson.
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Problem Statement
You are given a list of words or phrases, and you need to group the words that are anagrams of each other. An anagram is a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another word by rearranging its letters.
Input
The input will be a list of words or phrases. The following is an example of input:
["word", "sword", "drow", "rowd", "iced", "dice"]
Output
The output should be a list of grouped words. The following is an example output:
[['word', 'drow', 'rowd'], ['sword'], ['iced', 'dice']]
Coding exercise
You need to implement the function groupAnagrams(strs)
, where strs
is the list of words you need to group together. The function returns a list containing multiple lists of the newly created groups.
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