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Solution: Minimum Number of Steps to Make Two Strings Anagram
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Problem Statement

Given two strings, s and t, of the same length, return the minimum number of steps required to make t an anagram of s.

In each step, you can replace any character in t with another character.

An anagram of a string is a string that contains the same characters in any order.

Examples

Example 1:

  • Input: s = "designgurus", t = "garumdespgn"
  • Expected Output: 3
  • Justification: We need to replace a, m, and p characters in the string t to match the frequency of characters in s.

Example 2:

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