GlobalLogic Interview Questions

Given two strings, string1 and string2, write a function str_map to determine if there exists a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) between the characters of string1 and string2.

For the two strings, our correspondence must be between characters in the same position/index.

Example 1:

Input:

string1 = 'qwe'
string2 = 'asd'

string_map(string1, string2) == True

# q = a, w = s, and e = d

Example 2:

Input:

string1 = 'donut'
string2 = 'fatty'

string_map(string1, string2) == False
# cannot map two distinct characters to two equal characters

Example 3:

Input:

string1 = 'enemy'
string2 = 'enemy'

string_map(string1, string2) == True
# there exists a one-to-one correspondence between equivalent strings

Example 4:

Input:

string1 = 'enemy'
string2 = 'ymene'

string_map(string1, string2) == False
# since our correspondence must be between characters of the same index, this case returns 'False' as we must map e = y AND e = e