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Practice Ransom Note

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Easy#383
LeetCode Problem

Ransom Note

Problem Statement

Given two strings ransomNote and magazine, return true if ransomNote can be constructed by using the letters from magazine and false otherwise. Each letter in magazine can only be used once in ransomNote.

Source: Ransom Note on LeetCode. Use the original task for its coding environment and submissions.

Examples

# Example 1

Input
ransomNote = "a", magazine = "b"
Output
false

# Example 2

Input
ransomNote = "aa", magazine = "ab"
Output
false

# Example 3

Input
ransomNote = "aa", magazine = "aab"
Output
true

Constraints

1 <= ransomNote.length, magazine.length <= 10^5
ransomNote and magazine consist of lowercase English letters.

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