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Solution: Merge Strings Alternately

Explore how to merge two strings by alternating their characters using the two pointers technique. Understand how to traverse both strings simultaneously, handle different string lengths, and implement an efficient algorithm with optimal time and space complexity.

Statement

Given two strings word1 and word2, merge them by interleaving their characters in alternating order, beginning with the first character of word1. If one string is longer than the other, append the remaining characters of the longer string to the end of the merged result.

Return the resulting merged string.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq ...