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Reconstruct Itinerary

Explore how to solve the reconstruct itinerary problem by modeling flight tickets as a graph and using depth-first search to find the smallest lexical order route. Understand graph traversal, sorting, and complexity to apply these concepts in coding interviews.

Description

Assume we have an array of airline tickets represented as pairs of departure and arrival airports like [from, to]. We have to reconstruct the itinerary in order. All tickets belong to a man who departs from a specified location, e.g., JFK. Therefore, the itinerary must begin with JFK. There might be multiple valid itineraries; you must return the itinerary with the smallest lexical order.

Constraints

Consider the following constraints:

  • 1 <= tickets.length <= 300
  • tickets[i].length must be 2.
  • fromi.lengthfrom_i.length, toi.lengthto_i.length == 3
  • fromi
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