Insertion in a Trie
This lesson defines all the cases needed for inserting a word into a trie, along with the C# implementation.
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Word insertion
The insertion process is fairly simple. For each character in the key, check if it exists at the position desired. If the character is not present, then insert the corresponding trie node at the correct index in children. While inserting the last node, set the value of isEndWord to true.
There are three primary cases you need to consider during insertion. Let’s discuss them now.
Case 1: No common prefix
In this situation, you want to insert a word whose characters are not common with any other node path.
The illustration below shows the insertion of any in a trie, which consists of only the.
You need to create nodes for all the characters of the word any as there is not a common prefix between any and the.
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