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Problem: Reconstruct Itinerary

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Explore how to reconstruct a flight itinerary from a list of tickets starting at JFK airport by applying graph traversal techniques and lexicographical ordering. Learn to use all tickets exactly once to determine the correct travel sequence, a useful skill in solving graph-based coding interview problems.

Statement

Given a list of airline tickets where tickets[i] = [fromi, toi] represent a departure airport and an arrival airport of a single flight, reconstruct the itinerary in the correct order and return it.

The person who owns these tickets always starts their journey from "JFK". Therefore, the itinerary must begin with "JFK". If there are multiple valid itineraries, you should prioritize the one with the smallest lexical ordeLexicographical order is a way of sorting similar to how words are arranged in a dictionary. It compares items character by character, based on their order in the alphabet or numerical value.r when considering a single string.

  • For example, the itinerary ["JFK", "EDU"] has a smaller lexical order than ["JFK", "EDX"].

Note: You may assume all tickets form at least one valid itinerary. You must use all the tickets exactly once.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq tickets.length 300\leq 300

  • tickets[i].length =2= 2

  • fromi.length =3= 3

  • toi.length =3= 3

  • fromi \neq toi

  • fromi and toi consist of uppercase English letters.

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Problem: Reconstruct Itinerary

Medium
30 min
Explore how to reconstruct a flight itinerary from a list of tickets starting at JFK airport by applying graph traversal techniques and lexicographical ordering. Learn to use all tickets exactly once to determine the correct travel sequence, a useful skill in solving graph-based coding interview problems.

Statement

Given a list of airline tickets where tickets[i] = [fromi, toi] represent a departure airport and an arrival airport of a single flight, reconstruct the itinerary in the correct order and return it.

The person who owns these tickets always starts their journey from "JFK". Therefore, the itinerary must begin with "JFK". If there are multiple valid itineraries, you should prioritize the one with the smallest lexical ordeLexicographical order is a way of sorting similar to how words are arranged in a dictionary. It compares items character by character, based on their order in the alphabet or numerical value.r when considering a single string.

  • For example, the itinerary ["JFK", "EDU"] has a smaller lexical order than ["JFK", "EDX"].

Note: You may assume all tickets form at least one valid itinerary. You must use all the tickets exactly once.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq tickets.length 300\leq 300

  • tickets[i].length =2= 2

  • fromi.length =3= 3

  • toi.length =3= 3

  • fromi \neq toi

  • fromi and toi consist of uppercase English letters.