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Check If a Word is a Prefix of Any Word in a Sentence

Explore how to use trie data structures to efficiently check if a given word is a prefix of any word in a sentence. Understand the logic to return the earliest matching word's index or indicate no match, enhancing your string search skills.

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Statement

You are given a sentence containing words separated by single spaces and a searchWord. Your task is to determine whether searchWord is a prefix of any word in the sentence.

Return the 1-based index of the first word in which searchWord appears as a prefix.

  • If searchWord is a prefix of multiple words, return the index of the earliest such word.

  • If no word starts with searchWord, return −1-1 ...