211. Design Add and Search Words Data Structure
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Difficulty: medium Acceptance: 47% Topics: String, Depth-First Search, Design, Trie
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Reference solution (spoiler · python)
class TrieNode:
def __init__(self):
self.children = {}
self.is_end = False
class WordDictionary:
def __init__(self):
self.root = TrieNode()
def addWord(self, word: str) -> None:
node = self.root
for char in word:
if char not in node.children:
node.children[char] = TrieNode()
node = node.children[char]
node.is_end = True
def search(self, word: str) -> bool:
def search_in_node(node, word):
for i, char in enumerate(word):
if char not in node.children:
if char == ".":
for child in node.children:
if search_in_node(node.children[child], word[i + 1 :]):
return True
return False
else:
node = node.children[char]
return node.is_end
return search_in_node(self.root, word)
# Your WordDictionary object will be instantiated and called as such:
# obj = WordDictionary()
# obj.addWord(word)
# param_2 = obj.search(word)
# class WordDictionary:
# def __init__(self):
# self.word_set = set()
# def addWord(self, word: str) -> None:
# self.word_set.add(word)
# for i in range(len(word)):
# # Add all possible variations with a '.' in each position
# self.word_set.add(word[:i] + '.' + word[i + 1:])
# def search(self, word: str) -> bool:
# if word in self.word_set:
# return True
# # Check if the word contains a '.'
# if '.' not in word:
# return False
# # Split the word into two parts at the first occurrence of '.'
# first_part, rest_part = word.split('.', 1)
# # Iterate over lowercase letters and create variations to search
# for char in 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz':
# new_word = first_part + char + rest_part
# if new_word in self.word_set:
# return True
# return False
Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT