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DIY: Expressive words

Understand how to determine the number of stretchy words related to a given string by applying extension rules to character groups. Learn to implement expressiveWords function in JavaScript to solve this problem, preparing you for similar coding interview challenges.

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Problem statement

Given a string, S, and an array of words, return the number of words that are stretchy.

A word in words is stretchy with respect to S if S can be derived by extending the letters of the word. Here is the extend rule:

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