Deletion in a Trie
Explore how to delete words from a Trie in C# by handling different scenarios such as words with no suffix, words as prefixes, and words sharing common prefixes. Understand recursive deletion and how it affects Trie nodes to maintain efficient string storage and retrieval.
Deleting a word in a Trie
While deleting a node, you need to make sure that the node that you are trying to delete does not have any further child branches. If there are no branches, then you can easily remove the node.
However, if the node contains child branches, this opens up a few scenarios which will be covered below.
Case 1: Word with no suffix or prefix
If the word to be deleted has no suffix or prefix and all the character nodes of this word do not have any other children, then you will delete all these nodes up to the root.
However, if any of these ...