Problem: Substring with Concatenation of All Words
Explore how to solve the substring concatenation problem by using hash tables and a sliding window approach in JavaScript. Learn to handle duplicates, efficiently track word frequencies, and identify valid concatenated substrings in a given string. This lesson helps you implement a time- and space-efficient solution to find all starting indices where concatenated words appear.
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Statement
You are given a string s and an array of strings words, where every string in words has the same length.
A concatenated string is formed by taking any permutation of words and concatenating all the strings in that permutation together. In other words, it is a string that contains every element of words exactly in the order defined by some permutation, with no extra characters.
Return a list of all starting indices in s where a substring that is a concatenated string begins. The answer may be returned in any order.
Note: The array
wordsmay contain duplicate strings.
Constraints:
s.lengthwords.lengthwords[i].length...