Playing the Bulls and Cows Game in Java

The challenge

You are playing the following Bulls and Cows game with your friend: You write down a number and ask your friend to guess what the number is. Each time your friend makes a guess, you provide a hint that indicates how many digits in said guess match your secret number exactly in both digit and position (called “bulls”) and how many digits match the secret number but locate in the wrong position (called “cows”). Your friend will use successive guesses and hints to eventually derive the secret number.

Write a function to return a hint according to the secret number and friend’s guess, use A to indicate the bulls and B to indicate the cows. 

Please note that both secret number and friend’s guess may contain duplicate digits.

Example 1:

**Note: **You may assume that the secret number and your friend’s guess only contain digits, and their lengths are always equal.

The solution in Java

class Solution {
    public String getHint(String secret, String guess) {
        // keep counts
        int bulls=0;
        int cows =0;
        // keep primitive arrays
        int[] secretArr1 = new int[10];
        int[] guessArr2 = new int[10];

        // loop through the secret
        for(int i=0; i<secret.length(); i++){
            // get the current characters
            char c1 = secret.charAt(i);
            char c2 = guess.charAt(i);

            // if they match, then increment bulls
            if(c1==c2)
                bulls++;
            else{
                // otherwise increment our arrays
                secretArr1[c1-'0']++;
                guessArr2[c2-'0']++;
            }    
        }

        // loop through our primitive arrays
        for(int i=0; i<10; i++){
            // increment our cows according to which primitive is smaller
            cows += Math.min(secretArr1[i], guessArr2[i]);
        }

        // return the answer
        return bulls+"A"+cows+"B";
    }
}