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Design File System

Explore how to design a file system enabling creation of paths with associated values and retrieval methods, helping you grasp core concepts in coding system design and problem-solving strategies.

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Design a file system that allows us to create new paths and associate them with different values. A path has one or more concatenated strings of the form / followed by one or more lowercase English letters. For example, valid paths include "/educative" and "/educative/problems", while an empty string "" and "/" are not valid paths.

Implement the FileSystem class with the following functions:

  • bool createPath(string path, int value): This function creates a new path and associates a value to it if possible and returns TRUE. It returns FALSE if the path already exists or if its parent path doesn’t exist.

  • int get(string path): This function returns the value associated with the path or returns -11 ...