Question 70 of 75 - LeetCode Weekly Challenge

LeetCode Challenge #208. Implement Trie (Prefix Tree)

trie (pronounced as “try”) or prefix tree is a tree data structure used to efficiently store and retrieve keys in a dataset of strings. There are various applications of this data structure, such as autocomplete and spellchecker.

Implement the Trie class:

  • Trie() Initializes the trie object.
  • void insert(String word) Inserts the string word into the trie.
  • boolean search(String word) Returns true if the string word is in the trie (i.e., was inserted before), and false otherwise.
  • boolean startsWith(String prefix) Returns true if there is a previously inserted string word that has the prefix prefix, and false otherwise.

 

Example 1:

Input
["Trie", "insert", "search", "search", "startsWith", "insert", "search"]
[[], ["apple"], ["apple"], ["app"], ["app"], ["app"], ["app"]]
Output
[null, null, true, false, true, null, true]

Explanation
Trie trie = new Trie();
trie.insert("apple");
trie.search("apple");   // return True
trie.search("app");     // return False
trie.startsWith("app"); // return True
trie.insert("app");
trie.search("app");     // return True

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= word.length, prefix.length <= 2000
  • word and prefix consist only of lowercase English letters.
  • At most 3 * 104 calls in total will be made to insertsearch, and startsWith.
Video Solution
C++ Solution
				
					class trieNode
{
    public:
    char ch;
    trieNode* child[26];
    bool isEnd;

    trieNode(char val)
    {
        this->ch=val;
        for(int i=0; i<26; i++) child[i]=NULL;
        this->isEnd=false;
    }
};
class Trie {
public:
    trieNode* root;
    Trie() {
        root=new trieNode('\0');
    }
    void inserting(trieNode* root, string word)
    {
        if(word.length()==0)
        {
            root->isEnd=true;
            return;
        }

        int index=word[0]-'a';
        trieNode* temp;

        if(root->child[index]!=NULL)
        {
            temp=root->child[index];
        }
        else{
            temp= new trieNode(word[0]);
            root->child[index]=temp;
            temp=root->child[index];
        }

        inserting(temp,word.substr(1));
    }
    void insert(string word) {
        inserting(root,word);
    }
    
    bool searching(trieNode* root, string word)
    {
        if(word.length()==0)return root->isEnd;
        int index=word[0]-'a';
        if(root->child[index]!=NULL)
        {
            return searching(root->child[index],word.substr(1));
        }

        return false;
    }
    
    bool search(string word) {
        return searching(root,word);
    }

    bool startsChecking(trieNode* root, string word)
    {
        if(word.length()==0)return true;
        int index=word[0]-'a';
        if(root->child[index]!=NULL)
        {
            return startsChecking(root->child[index],word.substr(1));
        }
        return false;
    }
    
    bool startsWith(string prefix) {
        return startsChecking(root,prefix);
    }
};

/**
 * Your Trie object will be instantiated and called as such:
 * Trie* obj = new Trie();
 * obj->insert(word);
 * bool param_2 = obj->search(word);
 * bool param_3 = obj->startsWith(prefix);
 */
				
			

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