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First position of any anagram of a pattern in a string

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DatabricksCodingLast asked Sep 2026

Return the smallest index at which some rearrangement of a query string appears as a contiguous substring of a text, or -1. Keep a running character count over a fixed-size window instead of re-sorting. Be ready to handle Unicode input correctly, write edge-case tests, and decide how bad input is reported.

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