Check if a string is Pangrammatic Lipogram

To understand what a pangrammatic lipogram is we will break this term down into 2 terms i.e. a pangram and a lipogram

Pangram: A pangram or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. The best-known English pangram is “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

Lipogram: A lipogram is a kind of constrained writing or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided—usually a common vowel, and frequently E, the most common letter in the English language. 

Example: The original “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was changed by A. Ross Eckler Jr. to exclude the letter ‘S’.  

Original:
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go

He followed her to school one day
That was against the rule
It made the children laugh and play
To see the lamb in school

Lipogram (Without "S"):
Mary had a little lamb
With fleece a pale white hue
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb kept her in view

To academe he went with her,
Illegal, and quite rare;
It made the children laugh and play
To view the lamb in there

Pangrammatic Lipogram: 
A pangrammatic lipogram is a text that uses every letter of the alphabet except one. For example, “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” omits the letter S, which the usual pangram includes by using the word jumps. 

Given a string, our task is to check whether this string is a pangrammatic lipogram or not?  

The idea to do this is, we will keep track of all the letters which are not found in the string.  

• If all the letters of the alphabet are present then its a pangram
• If only one letter is omitted then it’s a pangrammatic lipogram otherwise it can be just a lipogram.

Below is the implementation of above idea:  

C++

// Javascript program to check if a string
// is Pangrammatic Lipogram

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

// collection of letters
string alphabets = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";


// function to check for a Pangrammatic Lipogram
void panLipogramChecker(string s)
{
    // convert string to lowercase
    for(int i=0; i<s.length(); i++)
    {
        s[i] = tolower(s[i]);
    }

    // variable to keep count of all the letters
    // not found in the string
    int counter = 0 ;

    // traverses the string for every
    // letter of the alphabet
    for(int i=0 ; i<26 ; i++)
    {
        int pos = s.find(alphabets[i]);

        // if character not found in string
        // then increment count
        if(pos<0 || pos>s.length())
            counter += 1;
    }

    if(counter == 0)
        cout<<"Pangram"<<endl;
    else if(counter >= 2)
        cout<<"Not a pangram but might a lipogram"<<endl;
    else
        cout<<"Pangrammatic Lipogram"<<endl;
}

// Driver program to test above function
int main()
{
    string str = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog";
    panLipogramChecker(str);

    str = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
    panLipogramChecker(str);

    str = "The quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog";
    panLipogramChecker(str);
}

Java

// Java program to check if a string
// is Pangrammatic Lipogram
import java.util.*;

class GFG
{

// collection of letters
static String alphabets = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

/*
    Category             No of letters unmatched
    Pangram                     0
    Lipogram                 >1
    Pangrammatic Lipogram     1
*/

// function to check for a Pangrammatic Lipogram
static void panLipogramChecker(char []s)
{
    // convert string to lowercase
    for(int i = 0; i < s.length; i++)
    {
        s[i] = Character.toLowerCase(s[i]);
    }

    // variable to keep count of all the letters
    // not found in the string
    int counter = 0 ;

    // traverses the string for every
    // letter of the alphabet
    for(int i = 0 ; i < 26 ; i++)
    {
        int pos = find(s, alphabets.charAt(i));

        // if character not found in string
        // then increment count
        if(pos<0 || pos > s.length)
            counter += 1;
    }

    if(counter == 0)
        System.out.println("Pangram");
    else if(counter >= 2)
        System.out.println("Not a pangram but might a lipogram");
    else
        System.out.println("Pangrammatic Lipogram");
}

static int find(char[]arr, char c)
{
    for(int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++)
    {
        if(c == arr[i])
            return 1;
    }
    return -1;
}

// Driver program to test above function
public static void main(String []args)
{
    char []str = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog".toCharArray();
    panLipogramChecker(str);

    str = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".toCharArray();
    panLipogramChecker(str);

    str = "The quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog".toCharArray();
    panLipogramChecker(str);
}
}

// This code is contributed by Rajput-Ji

Python3

# Python program to check if a string
# is Pangrammatic Lipogram

# collection of letters
alphabets = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'

'''
Category                No of letters unmatched
Pangram                     0
Lipogram                    >1
Pangrammatic Lipogram       1
'''

# function to check for a Pangrammatic Lipogram
def panLipogramChecker(s):
    s.lower()

    # variable to keep count of all the letters
    # not found in the string
    counter = 0

    # traverses the string for every
    # letter of the alphabet
    for ch in alphabets:
        # character not found in string then increment count
        if(s.find(ch) < 0):
            counter += 1

    if(counter == 0):
        result = "Pangram"
    else if(counter == 1):
        result = "Pangrammatic Lipogram"
    else:
        result = "Not a pangram but might a lipogram"

    return result

# Driver program to test above function
def main():
    print(panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox \
                            jumped over the lazy dog"))

    print(panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox \
                              jumps over the lazy dog"))

    print(panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox jump\
                                     over the lazy dog"))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

C#

// C# program to check if a string
// is Pangrammatic Lipogram
using System;

class GFG
{

// collection of letters
static String alphabets = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

/*
    Category             No of letters unmatched
    Pangram                     0
    Lipogram                 >1
    Pangrammatic Lipogram     1
*/

// function to check for a Pangrammatic Lipogram
static void panLipogramChecker(char []s)
{
    // convert string to lowercase
    for(int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++)
    {
        s[i] = char.ToLower(s[i]);
    }

    // variable to keep count of all the letters
    // not found in the string
    int counter = 0 ;

    // traverses the string for every
    // letter of the alphabet
    for(int i = 0 ; i < 26 ; i++)
    {
        int pos = find(s, alphabets[i]);

        // if character not found in string
        // then increment count
        if(pos<0 || pos > s.Length)
            counter += 1;
    }

    if(counter == 0)
        Console.WriteLine("Pangram");
    else if(counter >= 2)
        Console.WriteLine("Not a pangram but might a lipogram");
    else
        Console.WriteLine("Pangrammatic Lipogram");
}

static int find(char[]arr, char c)
{
    for(int i = 0; i < arr.Length; i++)
    {
        if(c == arr[i])
            return 1;
    }
    return -1;
}

// Driver program to test above function
public static void Main(String []args)
{
    char []str = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog".
                                                  ToCharArray();
    panLipogramChecker(str);

    str = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
                                          ToCharArray();
    panLipogramChecker(str);

    str = "The quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog".
                                        ToCharArray();
    panLipogramChecker(str);
}
}

// This code is contributed by 29AjayKumar

Javascript

<script>

// Javascript program to check if a string
// is Pangrammatic Lipogram
let alphabets = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";


/*
    Category             No of letters unmatched
    Pangram                     0
    Lipogram                 >1
    Pangrammatic Lipogram     1
*/

// Function to check for a Pangrammatic Lipogram
function panLipogramChecker(s)
{

    // Convert string to lowercase
    for(let i = 0; i < s.length; i++)
    {
        s[i] = s[i].toLowerCase;
    }

    // Variable to keep count of all the letters
    // not found in the string
    let counter = 0;

    // Traverses the string for every
    // letter of the alphabet
    for(let i = 0; i < 26; i++)
    {
        let pos = s.search(alphabets[i]);

        // If character not found in string
        // then increment count
        if (pos < 0 || pos > s.length)
            counter += 1;
    }

    if (counter == 0)
        document.write("Pangram");
    else if (counter >= 2)
        document.write("Not a pangram but " +
                       "might a lipogram");
    else
        document.write("Pangrammatic Lipogram");
}

// Driver code
let str = "The quick brown fox jumped " +
          "over the lazy dog";
panLipogramChecker(str);
document.write("<br>");

str = "The quick brown fox jumps over " +
      "the lazy dog";
panLipogramChecker(str);
document.write("<br>");

str = "The quick brown fox jump " +
      "over the lazy dog";
panLipogramChecker(str);

// This code is contributed by annianni

</script>

Output:

Pangrammatic Lipogram
Pangram
Not a Pangram but might a Lipogram

Time Complexity: O(26 * N) , here N is the number of characters in the string to be checked and 26 represents the total number of alphabets.

Efficient Approach: An efficient approach will be instead of iterating through all the letters of the alphabet we can maintain a hashed array or map to store the count of occurrences of each letter of alphabet in the input string. Initially count of all the letters will be initialized to zero. We will start traversing the string and increment the count of characters. Once we have completed traversing the string then we will iterate over the map or hashed array to look for how many characters have count as zero. 
Thanks to Ravi Teja Gannavarapu for suggesting this approach.

Below is implementation of above idea.  

C++

// C++ program to check for a Pangrammatic
// Lipogram O(n) approach

/*
Category                No of letters unmatched
Pangram                     0
Lipogram                    >1
Pangrammatic Lipogram       1
*/

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

// function to check for Pangrammatic Lipogram
void panLipogramChecker(string s)
{

    // using map to keep count of the
    // occurence of each letter
    unordered_map<char, int> mp;

    for (char c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; c++) {
        mp = 0;
    }

    transform(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(), ::tolower);

    int i, n = s.length();
    for (i = 0; i <= n - 1; i++) {
        if (isalpha(s[i])) {

            // increment count of characters in dictionary
            mp[s[i]]++;
        }
    }
    int count_zero = 0;

    for (auto it : mp) {
        if (it.second == 0) {
            count_zero++;
        }
    }
    if (count_zero > 1) {
        cout << "Not a pangram, but might be a lipogram.\n";
    }
    else if (count_zero == 1) {
        cout << "Pangrammatic Lipogram.\n";
    }
    else if (count_zero < 1) {
        cout << "Pangram.\n";
    }
}

// Driver program to test above function
int main()
{

    panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox \
                        jumped over the lazy dog");
    panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox \
                        jumps over the lazy dog");
    panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox \
                        jum over the lazy dog");
    return 0;
}

// This code is contributed by rajsanghavi9.

Java

// Java program to check for a Pangrammatic
// Lipogram O(n) approach

/*
Category                No of letters unmatched
Pangram                     0
Lipogram                    >1
Pangrammatic Lipogram       1
*/

import java.util.*;

class GFG {

    // function to check for Pangrammatic Lipogram
    static void panLipogramChecker(String s)
    {

        // using map to keep count of the
        // occurence of each letter
        HashMap<Character, Integer> mp = new HashMap<>();

        for (char c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; c++) {
            mp.put(c, 0);
        }

        s = s.toLowerCase();

        int i, n = s.length();
        for (i = 0; i <= n - 1; i++) {
            if (Character.isAlphabetic(s.charAt(i))) {

                // increment count of characters in
                // dictionary
                mp.put(s.charAt(i),
                       mp.get(s.charAt(i)) + 1);
            }
        }
        int count_zero = 0;

        // Getting an iterator
        Iterator hmIterator = mp.entrySet().iterator();

        while (hmIterator.hasNext()) {
            Map.Entry mapElement
                = (Map.Entry)hmIterator.next();
            int marks = ((int)mapElement.getValue());

            if (marks == 0)
                count_zero++;
        }
        if (count_zero > 1) {
            System.out.println(
                "Not a pangram, but might be a lipogram.");
        }
        else if (count_zero == 1) {
            System.out.println("Pangrammatic Lipogram.");
        }
        else if (count_zero < 1) {
            System.out.println("Pangram.");
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        panLipogramChecker(
            "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog");
        panLipogramChecker(
            "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog");
        panLipogramChecker(
            "The quick brown fox jum over the lazy dog");
    }
}

// This code is contributed by rajsanghavi9.

Python3

# Python program to check for a Pangrammatic
# Lipogram O(n) approach

'''
Category                No of letters unmatched
Pangram                     0
Lipogram                    >1
Pangrammatic Lipogram       1
'''

# function to check for Pangrammatic Lipogram


def panLipogramChecker(s):

    # dictionary to keep count of the
    # occurence of each letter
    counter = {'a': 0, 'b': 0, 'c': 0, 'd': 0, 'e': 0,
               'f': 0, 'g': 0, 'h': 0, 'i': 0, 'j': 0,
               'k': 0, 'l': 0, 'm': 0, 'n': 0, 'o': 0,
               'p': 0, 'q': 0, 'r': 0, 's': 0, 't': 0,
               'u': 0, 'v': 0, 'w': 0, 'x': 0, 'y': 0,
               'z': 0}

    s = s.lower()

    # increment count of characters in dictionary
    for i in s:
        if (i.isalpha()):
            counter[i] += 1

    # returns a list containing the values of all
    # the keys in h=the dictionary
    b = list(counter.values())

    if (b.count(0) > 1):
        print("Not a pangram, but might be a lipogram.")
    else if (b.count(0) == 1):
        print("Pangrammatic Lipogram.")
    else if (b.count(0) < 1):
        print("Pangram.")


# Driver program to test above function
def main():
    panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox \
                        jumped over the lazy dog")
    panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox \
                        jumps over the lazy dog")
    panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox \
                        jum over the lazy dog")


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Javascript

<script>
// JavaScript program to check for a Pangrammatic
// Lipogram O(n) approach

/*
Category                No of letters unmatched
Pangram                     0
Lipogram                    >1
Pangrammatic Lipogram       1
*/

// count number of occurences of `n` in arr
const count = (arr , n) => arr.filter(x => x === n).length

// function to check for Pangrammatic Lipogram
const panLipogramChecker = (s) => {
    const counter = {'a': 0, 'b': 0, 'c': 0, 'd': 0, 'e': 0,
    'f': 0, 'g': 0, 'h': 0, 'i': 0, 'j': 0,
    'k': 0, 'l': 0, 'm': 0, 'n': 0, 'o': 0,
    'p': 0, 'q': 0, 'r': 0, 's': 0, 't': 0,
    'u': 0, 'v': 0, 'w': 0, 'x': 0, 'y': 0,
    'z': 0}

    s = s.toLowerCase()

    // Couting frequency of each character
    for(let i of s) {
        if(/^[a-z]+$/gi.test(i)) {
            counter[i] += 1
        }
    }

    const b = Object.values(counter)

    if(count(b , 0) > 1) {
        document.write("Not a pangram, but might be a lipogram.")
    }
    else if(count(b , 0) == 1) {
        document.write("Pangrammatic Lipogram.")
    } else {
        document.write("Pangram.")
    }
}

// Driver code
panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog")
panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog")
panLipogramChecker("The quick brown fox jum over the lazy dog")

// This code is contributed by kraanzu.
</script>

Output: 

Pangrammatic Lipogram
Pangram
Not a Pangram but might a Lipogram

Time Complexity: O(N), where N is the number of characters in the input string.

Reference: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lipogram

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