find all the anagrams of a word from a given list

Author: ahsankamal

beginners/anagrams.rb

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+# Write a function that will find all the anagrams of a word from a given list (array of words). You should return an empty array if there is no anagram. 
+
+def anagrams(word, words)
+hash={}
+('a'..'z').each {|i| hash[i] = 0}
+word.each_char {|i| hash[i]+=1 }
+
+words.collect do |w|
+  tmp={}
+  ('a'..'z').each {|i| tmp[i] = 0}
+  w.each_char {|i| tmp[i]+=1 }
+  w if tmp==hash
+end.compact 
+end
+
+
+print anagrams('abbabc', ['aabbbc', 'ababcc', 'bbaabc', 'ababac']) 
+puts ""
+print anagrams('racer', ['crazer', 'carer', 'racar', 'caers', 'racer'])