#53. allSwap
allSwap
Background
Description
We'll say that 2 strings "match" if they are non-empty and their first chars are the same. Loop over and then return the given array of non-empty strings as follows: if a string matches an earlier string in the array, swap the 2 strings in the array. When a position in the array has been swapped, it no longer matches anything. Using a map, this can be solved making just one pass over the array. More difficult than it looks.
Format
Input
Output
Samples
"ab" "ac"
["ac", "ab"]
"ax" "bx" "cx" "cy" "by" "ay" "aaa" "azz"
["ay", "by", "cy", "cx", "bx", "ax", "azz", "aaa"]
"ax" "bx" "ay" "by" "ai" "aj" "bx" "by"
["ay", "by", "ax", "bx", "aj", "ai", "by", "bx"]
Limitation
1s, 1024KiB for each test case.