Alien Dictionary
Explore how to derive the lexicographical order of an alien language from a sorted list of words. Learn to apply topological sort techniques to solve the alien dictionary problem while handling unique constraints and edge cases. This lesson strengthens your ability to analyze problem statements and implement solutions efficiently for coding interviews.
We'll cover the following...
Statement
You are given a list of words written in an alien language, where the words are sorted lexicographically by the rules of this language. Surprisingly, the aliens also use English lowercase letters, but possibly in a different order.
Given a list of words written in the alien language, return a string of unique letters sorted in the lexicographical order of the alien language as derived from the list of words.
If there’s no solution, that is, no valid lexicographical ordering, you can return an empty string "".
If multiple valid orderings exist, you may return any of them. ...