30-seconds-of-code/snippets/is_anagram.md

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is_anagram	string,intermediate

Checks if a string is an anagram of another string (case-insensitive, ignores spaces, punctuation and special characters).

Use input_string.replace() to remove spaces from both strings. Compare the lengths of the two strings, return False if they are not equal. Use sorted() on both strings and compare the results.

def is_anagram(input_string_1, input_string_2):
  _str1, _str2 = input_string_1.replace(" ", ""), input_string_2.replace(" ", "")

  if len(_str1) != len(_str2):
    return False
  else:
    return sorted(_str1.lower()) == sorted(_str2.lower())

is_anagram("anagram", "Nag a ram")  # True