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Solution: Reconstruct Itinerary

Explore how to reconstruct a travel itinerary from a list of airline tickets starting at JFK using graph algorithms. Understand how Hierholzer’s algorithm and depth-first search can find an Eulerian path, integrating sorting and recursion to build the correct order. By the end, you will grasp the approach to solve this common graph problem in coding interviews using Go.

Statement

Given a list of airline tickets where tickets[i] = [fromi, toi] represent a departure airport and an arrival airport of a single flight, reconstruct the itinerary in the correct order and return it.

The person who owns these tickets always starts their journey from "JFK". Therefore, the itinerary must begin with "JFK". If there are multiple valid itineraries, you should prioritize the one with the smallest lexical ordeLexicographical order is a sorting arrangement similar to how words are arranged in a dictionary. It compares items character by character, based on their order in the alphabet or numerical value.r when considering a single string.

  • For example, the itinerary ["JFK", "EDU"] has a smaller lexical order than ["JFK", "EDX"].

Note: You may assume all tickets form at least one valid itinerary. You must use all the tickets exactly once.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq tickets.length 300\leq 300

  • tickets[i].length =2= 2

  • fromi ...