🚀 Day 69/150 – Check Anagram in Python

An anagram means two strings contain the same characters in a different order.

✅ Example

listen → silent
race → care

Both words contain the same letters, so they are called anagrams.

🔹 Method 1 – Using  sorted()


str1 = "listen"

str2 = "silent"

if sorted(str1) == sorted(str2):
    print("Anagram")
else:
    print("Not Anagram")







✅ Output

Anagram

📌 sorted() arranges characters alphabetically and compares both strings.

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🔹 Method 2 – Taking User Input

str1 = input("Enter first string: ")
str2 = input("Enter second string: ")

if sorted(str1.lower()) == sorted(str2.lower()):
    print("Anagram")
else:
    print("Not Anagram")







✅ Example Output

Enter first string: Heart
Enter second string: Earth

Anagram

📌 lower() ignores uppercase and lowercase differences.

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🔹 Method 3 – Using Dictionary Count

str1 = "race"

str2 = "care" count1 = {} count2 = {} for ch in str1: count1[ch] = count1.get(ch, 0) + 1 for ch in str2: count2[ch] = count2.get(ch, 0) + 1 if count1 == count2: print("Anagram") else: 

print("Not Anagram")

Output

Anagram

📌 This method compares the frequency of each character.

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🔹 Method 4 – Using Function

def is_anagram(str1, str2):
    return sorted(str1.lower()) == sorted(str2.lower())

print(is_anagram("listen", "silent"))




✅ Output

True

📌 Functions make the code reusable and cleaner.

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🔥 Key Takeaways

✅ Anagrams contain the same characters in different order
✅ sorted() is the easiest and most popular method
✅ Dictionary counting helps understand character frequency
✅ lower() avoids case mismatch problems
✅ Anagram problems are common in coding interviews