What is a Trie?

This lesson is a brief introduction to “trie,” its properties, and common applications.

Introduction

The previous section covered several common types of trees like red-black trees, 2-3 trees, and more.

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

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

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