Sort Characters By Frequency

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AlgoAxiomStaff Engineers
JSTS
Medium20 mins

Given a string s, sort it in decreasing order based on the frequency of the characters. The frequency of a character is the number of times it appears in the string.

Return the sorted string. If there are multiple answers, return any of them.

Examples

Example 1:

Input: s = "tree"

Output: "eert"

Explanation: 'e' appears twice while 'r' and 't' each appear once. So 'e' must appear before both 'r' and 't'. "eetr" is also a valid answer.

Example 2:

Input: s = "cccaaa"

Output: "aaaccc"

Explanation: Both 'c' and 'a' appear three times, so both "cccaaa" and "aaaccc" are valid answers. Note that "cacaca" is incorrect, as the same characters must be grouped together.

Example 3:

Input: s = "Aabb"

Output: "bbAa"

Explanation: 'b' appears twice, while 'A' and 'a' each appear once. Note that 'A' and 'a' are treated as two different characters.

Constraints

  • 1 <= s.length <= 5 * 10⁵
  • s consists of uppercase and lowercase English letters and digits.
Source: Top K Elements pattern — AlgoAxiom
JavaScript
Test Case 1
root = [1, 2, 3]
Test Case 2
root = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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