finding if two words are anagrams of each other

Question

I am looking for a method to find if two strings are anagrams of one another.

Ex: string1 - abcde
string2 - abced
Ans = true
Ex: string1 - abcde
string2 - ab         


        

Answer 1

The steps are:

1. check the length of of both the words/strings if they are equal then only proceed to check for anagram else do nothing
2. sort both the words/strings and then compare

JAVA CODE TO THE SAME:

/*
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package anagram;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.Arrays;

/**
 *
 * @author Sunshine
 */
public class Anagram {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        // TODO code application logic here
        System.out.println("Enter the first string");
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        String s1 = br.readLine().toLowerCase();
        System.out.println("Enter the Second string");
        BufferedReader br2 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        String s2 = br2.readLine().toLowerCase();
        char c1[] = null;
        char c2[] = null;
        if (s1.length() == s2.length()) {


            c1 = s1.toCharArray();
            c2 = s2.toCharArray();

            Arrays.sort(c1);
            Arrays.sort(c2);

            if (Arrays.equals(c1, c2)) {
                System.out.println("Both strings are equal and hence they have anagram");
            } else {
                System.out.println("Sorry No anagram in the strings entred");
            }

        } else {
            System.out.println("Sorry the string do not have anagram");
        }
    }
}