Word Break II
Explore how to apply dynamic programming to segment a string into all possible valid sentences using a given dictionary of words. Understand problem constraints, reuse of dictionary words, and implement solutions to solve Word Break II efficiently.
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Statement
You are given a string, s, and an array of strings, wordDict, representing a dictionary. Your task is to add spaces to s to break it up into a sequence of valid words from wordDict. We are required to return an array of all possible sequences of words (sentences). The order in which the sentences are listed is not significant.
Note: The same dictionary word may be reused multiple times in the segmentation.
Constraints:
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s.length -
wordDict.length -
wordDict[i].length -
sandwordDict[i]consist of only lowercase English letters. -
All the strings of
wordDictare unique.
Examples
Understand the problem
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Word Break II
What is the output if the following input string and dictionary are provided as input?
s = “pineapplepenapple”
word_dict = [“apple”, “pen”, “applepen”, “pine”, “pineapple”]
[“pine apple pen apple”, “pineapple pen apple”, “pine applepen apple”]
[“pine apple pen apple”, “pine applepen apple”]
[“pineapple pen apple”]
[]
Figure it out!
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Try it yourself
Implement your solution in the following coding playground.
export function wordBreak(s, wordDict){// Replace this placeholder return statement with your codereturn []}