Solution: Valid Word Abbreviation
Understand how to implement a two pointers approach to determine if an abbreviation correctly represents a given word. Learn to handle digit parsing, avoid invalid leading zeros, and verify character matches for accurate abbreviation validation.
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Statement
Given a string, word, and abbreviation, abbr, return TRUE if the abbreviation matches the given string. Otherwise, return FALSE. An abbreviation can replace any non-adjacent, non-empty substrings of the original word with their lengths. Replacement lengths must not contain leading zeros.
A certain word, "calendar", can be abbreviated as follows:
"cal3ar"("cal +end[length = 3] + ar"skipping three ...