Solution: Valid Word Abbreviation
Understand how to determine if an abbreviation correctly represents a given word by applying the two pointers technique. This lesson guides you through comparing characters and skipping letters using numeric values in the abbreviation, ensuring valid, efficient verification without leading zeros or empty substrings.
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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 ...