Interleaving Strings
Explore dynamic programming strategies to solve the interleaving strings problem. This lesson guides you through naive recursive and optimized DP solutions, including memoization and bottom-up approaches. Learn to verify if a string can be formed by interleaving two others while preserving character order, enhancing problem-solving skills for technical interviews.
Statement
Given strings s1, s2, and s3, find whether an interleaving of s1 and s2 forms s3.
An interleaving of two strings a and b is a configuration where a and b splits into and substrings, respectively, such that:
- a + + … +
- b + + … +
- The interleaving can follow either of the following two formats: