DIY: Word Search I
Solve the interview question "Word Search I" in this lesson.
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Problem statement
For the first challenge, you are given a 2D grid of characters. You have to find a specific string in the grid by combining the adjacent characters. Assume that only up, down, right, and left neighbors are considered adjacent.
Input
The first input will be a two-dimensional list, meaning a list of lists. The 2D list will represent the grid of characters. The second input will be a string that needs to be searched in the grid. The following is an example input:
[['H', 'O', 'L', 'I', 'K'],
['O', 'M', 'L', 'M', 'E'],
['O', 'E', 'I', 'A', 'Y'],
['R', 'T', 'A', 'S', 'O'],
['S', 'I', 'T', 'T', 'R']]
"MAYOR"
Output
The output will be a Boolean that represents if the string was found in the grid or not. The following is an example output for the inputs above:
True
Coding exercise
You need to implement the function find_string(grid, string)
, where grid
is the 2D array of characters and string
is the string we are searching for. The function returns a Boolean representing if the string was found.
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