Check whether two strings are anagrams or not - C Language Programming

Program in C Language to check whether two strings are anagrams or not



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/*******************************************************
 Statement - Check whether two strings are anagrams or not
 Programmer - Vineet Choudhary
 Written For - http://developerinsider.co
 *******************************************************/

/*
 What is anagrams?
 Two words are said to be anagrams of each other if the letters from one word can be rearranged to form the other word. From the above definition it is clear that two strings are anagrams if all characters in both strings occur same number of times. For example "abc" and "cab" are anagram strings, here every character 'a', 'b' and 'c' occur only one time in both strings
 */

#include <stdio.h>

int check_anagram(char [], char []);

void main()
{
    char a[100], b[100];
    int flag;
    clrscr();
    
    printf("Enter first string\n");
    gets(a);
    
    printf("Enter second string\n");
    gets(b);
    
    flag = check_anagram(a, b);
    
    if (flag == 1)
        printf("\"%s\" and \"%s\" are anagrams.\n", a, b);
    else
        printf("\"%s\" and \"%s\" are not anagrams.\n", a, b);
    
    getch();
}

int check_anagram(char a[], char b[])
{
    int first[26] = {0}, second[26] = {0}, c = 0;
    
    while (a[c] != '\0')
    {
        first[a[c]-'a']++;
        c++;
    }
    
    c = 0;
    
    while (b[c] != '\0')
    {
        second[b[c]-'a']++;
        c++;
    }
    
    for (c = 0; c < 26; c++)
    {
        if (first[c] != second[c])
            return 0;
    }
    
    return 1;
}
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