Design Add and Search Words Data Structure
Try to solve the Design Add and Search Words Data Structure problem.
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Statement
Design a data structure called WordDictionary that supports the following functionalities:
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Constructor: This function will initialize the object.
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Add Word(word): This function will store the provided word in the data structure.
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Search Word(word): This function will return TRUE if any string in the WordDictionary object matches the query word. Otherwise, it will return FALSE. If the query word contains dots,
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, each dot is free to match any letter of the alphabet.For example, the dot in the string “.ad” can have possible search results like “aad”, “bad”, “cad”, and so on.
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Get Words(): This function will return all the words in the WordDictionary class.
Constraints:
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word.length
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Words passed to Add Word() consist of lowercase English letters.
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Words passed to Search Word() consist of
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or lowercase English letters. -
There will be, at most, three dots in a word passed to Search Word().
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At most, calls will be made to Add Word() and Search Word().
Examples
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