648. Replace Words
Medium
In English, we have a concept called root, which can be followed by some other word to form another longer word - let's call this word successor. For example, when the root
"an"
is followed by the successor word "other"
, we can form a new word "another"
.Given a
dictionary
consisting of many roots and a sentence
consisting of words separated by spaces, replace all the successors in the sentence with the root forming it. If a successor can be replaced by more than one root, replace it with the root that has the shortest length.Return the
sentence
after the replacement.Example 1:
Input: dictionary = ["cat","bat","rat"], sentence = "the cattle was rattled by the battery"
Output:
"the cat was rat by the bat"
Example 2:
Input: dictionary = ["a","b","c"], sentence = "aadsfasf absbs bbab cadsfafs"
Output:
"a a b c"
Constraints:
1 <= dictionary.length <= 1000
1 <= dictionary[i].length <= 100
dictionary[i]
consists of only lower-case letters.1 <= sentence.length <= 106
sentence
consists of only lower-case letters and spaces.- The number of words in
sentence
is in the range[1, 1000]
- The length of each word in
sentence
is in the range[1, 1000]
- Every two consecutive words in
sentence
will be separated by exactly one space. sentence
does not have leading or trailing spaces.
Runtime: 152 ms, faster than 40.42%
Memory Usage: 15.9 MB, less than 78.72%
func replaceWords(dictionary []string, sentence string) string {
m := make(map[string]bool)
for _, word := range dictionary {
m[word] = true
}
words := strings.Fields(sentence)
ans := ""
for _, word := range words {
for i:=1; i<len(word)+1; i++ {
if m[word[:i]] {
ans = ans + word[:i] + " "
break
}
if i == len(word) {
ans = ans + word + " "
}
}
}
return ans[:len(ans)-1]
}
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