Solution: Verifying an Alien Dictionary
Discover how to verify if a list of words is sorted according to an alien dictionary order. Learn to apply topological sort concepts by comparing adjacent words and efficiently determining lexicographical order using a ranking map. Understand how to handle prefixes and edge cases to return accurate results.
Statement
In an alien language, the alphabet consists of the same lowercase English letters but arranged in a different order.
Given a list of words, words, written in this alien language, and a string order representing the order of the alien alphabet (as a permutation of lowercase letters), return TRUE if the words are sorted lexicographically according to order; otherwise, return FALSE.
Note: A word
ais considered lexicographically smaller than wordbif:
At the first position where the two words differ, the character in
acomes before the character inbin the givenorderstring.If one word is a prefix of the other (and all compared characters are the same), then the shorter word is considered smaller.
Constraints:
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words.length