Minimum Index Sum of Two Lists
Difficulty: Easy
Category: DSA
Topics: Hash Table
Asked at: Oracle, Yelp
Suppose Andy and Doris want to choose a restaurant for dinner, and they both have a list of favorite restaurants represented by strings.
You need to help them find out their common interest with the least list index sum. If there is a choice tie between answers, output all of them with no order requirement. You could assume there always exists an answer.
Example 1:
Input: list1 = ["Shogun","Tapioca Express","Burger King","KFC"], list2 = ["Piatti","The Grill at Torrey Pines","Hungry Hunter Steakhouse","Shogun"]
Output: ["Shogun"]
Explanation: The only restaurant they both like is "Shogun".
Example 2:
Input: list1 = ["Shogun","Tapioca Express","Burger King","KFC"], list2 = ["KFC","Shogun","Burger King"]
Output: ["Shogun"]
Explanation: The restaurant they both like and have the least index sum is "Shogun" with index sum 1 (0+1).
Example 3:
Input: list1 = ["Shogun","Tapioca Express","Burger King","KFC"], list2 = ["KFC","Burger King","Tapioca Express","Shogun"]
Output: ["KFC","Burger King","Tapioca Express","Shogun"]
Example 4:
Input: list1 = ["Shogun","Tapioca Express","Burger King","KFC"], list2 = ["KNN","KFC","Burger King","Tapioca Express","Shogun"]
Output: ["KFC","Burger King","Tapioca Express","Shogun"]
Example 5:
Input: list1 = ["KFC"], list2 = ["KFC"]
Output: ["KFC"]
Constraints:
`1 <= list1.length, list2.length <= 1000`
`1 <= list1[i].length, list2[i].length <= 30`
`list1[i]` and `list2[i]` consist of spaces `' '` and English letters.
All the stings of `list1` are unique.
All the stings of `list2` are unique.