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What is a Trie?

Explore the Trie data structure and its role in fast string storage and retrieval. Understand its properties and common applications such as autocomplete, spell-checking, and contact search to enhance your coding interview skills using C#.

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.

💡 Did you know?

Trie basically comes from the word “retrieval” ...