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Problem: Longest Word With All Prefixes

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30 min
Explore how to identify the longest word in a list where all prefixes of the word are also included. Learn to solve this with trie data structures to optimize search and prefix verification, gaining skills essential for coding interviews.

Statement

You are given an array of strings, words. Your task is to find the longest string in words such that every prefix of this string is also present in words.

A prefix of a string is any leading substring. For example, the prefixes of "apple" are "a", "ap", "app", and "appl".

  1. If multiple valid strings have the same maximum length, return the lexicographically smallest one.

  2. If no such string exists, return an empty string "".

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq words.length 103\leq 10^3

  • 11 \leq words[i].length 103\leq 10^3

  • 11 \leq sum(words[i].length) 103\leq 10^3

  • words[i] consists only of lowercase English letters.

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Problem: Longest Word With All Prefixes

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30 min
Explore how to identify the longest word in a list where all prefixes of the word are also included. Learn to solve this with trie data structures to optimize search and prefix verification, gaining skills essential for coding interviews.

Statement

You are given an array of strings, words. Your task is to find the longest string in words such that every prefix of this string is also present in words.

A prefix of a string is any leading substring. For example, the prefixes of "apple" are "a", "ap", "app", and "appl".

  1. If multiple valid strings have the same maximum length, return the lexicographically smallest one.

  2. If no such string exists, return an empty string "".

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq words.length 103\leq 10^3

  • 11 \leq words[i].length 103\leq 10^3

  • 11 \leq sum(words[i].length) 103\leq 10^3

  • words[i] consists only of lowercase English letters.