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Solution: Interleaving String

Explore how to use dynamic programming to verify if one string is an interleaving of two others. This lesson guides you through a space-efficient 1D DP approach and helps you understand how to evaluate state transitions and complexity when solving interleaving string problems.

Statement

You’re given three strings: s1, s2, and s3. Your task is to determine whether s3 can be formed by interleaving s1 and s2.

Interleaving means you take both strings and break them into smaller pieces (substrings), then merge those pieces while preserving the left-to-right order of characters within each original string.

The final mixed string might look like any of the following:

  1. s11+s21+s12+s22+s1_1 + s2_1 + s1_2 + s2_2 + \dots ...