How do I check in Swift if two arrays contain the same elements regardless of the order in which those elements appear in?
Swift 3, 4
extension Array where Element: Comparable {
func containsSameElements(as other: [Element]) -> Bool {
return self.count == other.count && self.sorted() == other.sorted()
}
}
// usage
let a: [Int] = [1, 2, 3, 3, 3]
let b: [Int] = [1, 3, 3, 3, 2]
let c: [Int] = [1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3]
print(a.containsSameElements(as: b)) // true
print(a.containsSameElements(as: c)) // false
you can do something like this:
array1.sortInPlace()
array2.sortInPlace()
print(array1,array2)
if array1 == array2 {
print("equal")
} else {
print("not equal")
}
and if don't want change origional array we can do
let sorted1 = array1.sort()
let sorted2 = array2.sort()
if sorted1 == sorted2 {
print("equal")
}else {
print("not equal")
}
Using Set
let array1 = ["a", "b", "c"]
let array2 = ["b", "c", "a", "c"]
let set1 = Set(array1)
let set2 = Set(array2)
if (set1.count == set2.count && set1 == set2) { //if you compare big sets it is recommended to compare the count of items in the sets beforehand
//they are identical
}
The Set
implements Hashable
so the task is to implement the hash function to work with a Set