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Best Anagram Match

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Problem statement

Given a lowercase target string and a list of lowercase candidate words, return the lexicographically smallest candidate that is an exact anagram of the target.

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Example 1

target = "listen"candidates = ["silent","enlist","google"]return = "enlist"

Both silent and enlist are anagrams; enlist is lexicographically smaller.

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