anagram checker wont work ...

[jcollins1991]

im trying to make a program thats supposed to check whether 2 strings are anagrams of each other (anagram = same letters in both strings, but in different orders... "cool as wet art" , and "cs at waterloo" for example).


[CODE=java]while (str2.get_Lengt h() != 0) //<---- checks whether second string is "cleared"
{

//loop, from start of string (k = 0) to end of string (length2) for (k = 0; k <= length2; k = k + 1)
{
char1 = str1.charAt(0);
y = 0; resets y
char2 = str2.charAt(0);
if (char2 == char1) //checks if two are the same, if they are, makes y = point in string with char 2
{
y = str2.IndexOf(ch ar2);
}

if (y > -1) //checks if y is positive, if so, takes a substring of all other letters
str2 = (str2.substring (0, y)) + (str2.substring (y + 1));
}


} [/CODE]

can anyone figure out why it wont work???

[Ganon11]

Well, two things:

1) If char1 and char2 are the same character, then the IndexOf function will always return 0, because that character is the first character. If they aren't equal, you don't do anything to get the index of that character.

2) You don't have anything returning false if the two Strings are not anagrams of each other.

[JosAH]

Sort both strings and check whether or not both sorted strings are equal, e.g. both
strings "baa" and "aba" sorted are equal to "aab".

kind regards,

Jos