Discussion on: A common coding interview question

[Soham Mondal]

This is my O(n) solution. We don't need to parse any of the strings to an integer.

const findIntersection = (arr) => {

  // n1 - larger array
  // n2 - smaller array

  let n1, n2;

  if (arr[0].split(',').length > arr[1].split(',').length) {
    n1 = arr[0].split(',');
    n2 = arr[1].split(',');
  } else {
    n1 = arr[1].split(',');
    n2 = arr[0].split(',');
  }

  let len = n1.length;

  // store the common items
  let common = [];

  for (let i = 0; i < len; i++) {

    // check if an item of one array (larger one) exists in the other array (smaller one)
    if (n2.includes(n1[i])) {
      common.push(n1[i]);
    }


  }

  return common.length ? common.join() : "false" ;
}