Solution: Valid Word Abbreviation
Explore how to verify if an abbreviation correctly represents a word by using the two pointers technique. Understand how to check characters and skip substrings per abbreviation rules, ensuring valid abbreviations without leading zeros or empty replacements, and apply an efficient O(n) time complexity solution.
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Statement
Given a string, word, and abbreviation, abbr, return TRUE if the abbreviation matches the given string. Otherwise, return FALSE. An abbreviation can replace any non-adjacent, non-empty substrings of the original word with their lengths. Replacement lengths must not contain leading zeros.
A certain word, "calendar", can be abbreviated as follows:
"cal3ar"("cal +end[length = 3] + ar"skipping ...