Interleaving Strings
Explore how to verify if one string is formed by interleaving two others while preserving character order. Understand naive recursive solutions and improve them with dynamic programming memoization and tabulation methods. Learn to optimize time and space complexity in practical coding interview scenarios involving interleaving strings.
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: