What is a Trie?

This lesson gives a brief introduction to Trie, its properties, and common applications.

Introduction

In the previous section, we covered several common types of trees, like Red-Black trees, 2-3 trees, etc.

Now, we are going to look at a tree-like data structure, which proves to be really efficient while solving programming problems related to strings.

This data structure is called a Trie and is also known as a Prefix Tree. We will soon find out why.

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