Two to One

Two to One

Take 2 strings s1 and s2 including only letters from ato z. Return a new sorted string, the longest possible, containing distinct letters,

• each taken only once - coming from s1 or s2.

Examples:

a = "xyaabbbccccdefww"
b = "xxxxyyyyabklmopq"
longest(a, b) -> "abcdefklmopqwxy"

a = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
longest(a, a) -> "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

Solutions

🐍 Python

def longest(s1, s2):
    return ''.join(sorted(set( s1.join(s2))))