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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in C++

Solution: Check If a Word is a Prefix of Any Word in a Sentence

Explore how to use a Trie to check if a search word is a prefix of any word in a sentence. Learn the step-by-step process to insert words into a Trie and efficiently find the earliest match, helping you handle prefix-based string problems common in coding interviews.

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Statement

You are given a sentence containing words separated by single spaces and a searchWord. Your task is to determine whether searchWord is a prefix of any word in the sentence.

Return the 1-based index of the first word in which searchWord appears as a prefix.

  • If searchWord is a prefix of multiple words, return the index of the earliest such word.

  • If no word starts with searchWord, return −1-1.

A prefix of a string is any contiguous substring that begins at the first character.

Constraints:

  • 1<=1 <= ...