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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.

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 between word1 and word2 in the array of strings.

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