Solution: Valid Word Abbreviation
Explore how to determine if an abbreviation corresponds to a word by applying the two pointers technique. This lesson helps you understand verifying characters against their processed abbreviation, handling numeric skips without leading zeros, and efficiently matching strings in a coding interview scenario.
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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 ...