Shortest Word Distance II
Understand how to create a custom data structure that efficiently calculates the shortest distance between any two words in a string array. Explore practical implementation and optimization techniques to solve this common coding interview problem effectively.
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Statement
Design a data structure that takes in an array of strings and efficiently computes the shortest distance between any two different strings in the array.
Implement the WordDistance class:
WordDistance(String[] wordsDict): Initializes the object with an array of strings.int shortest(String word1, String word2): Returns the shortest distance betweenword1andword2in the array of strings.
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