Solution: Shortest Word Distance II
Explore how to implement the WordDistance class that pre-processes an array of words to efficiently compute the shortest distance between any two given words. Understand the use of a dictionary to store word positions and the two-pointer technique to query distances, enabling fast and effective word distance calculations.
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Statement
Design a data structure that takes in an array of strings and efficiently computes the shortest distance between any two different strings in the array.
Implement the WordDistance class:
WordDistance(String[] wordsDict): Initializes the object with an array of strings.int shortest(String word1, String word2): Returns the shortest distance betweenword1andword2in the array of strings.
Constraints:
wordsDict.length...