Replace Words
Difficulty: Medium
Category: DSA
Topics: Hash Table, Trie
Asked at: Uber
In English, we have a concept called root, which can be followed by some other word to form another longer word - let's call this word successor. For example, when the root `"an"` is followed by the successor word `"other"`, we can form a new word `"another"`.
Given a `dictionary` consisting of many roots and a `sentence` consisting of words separated by spaces, replace all the successors in the sentence with the root forming it. If a successor can be replaced by more than one root, replace it with the root that has the shortest length.
Return the `sentence` after the replacement.
Example 1:
Input: dictionary = ["cat","bat","rat"], sentence = "the cattle was rattled by the battery"
Output: "the cat was rat by the bat"
Example 2:
Input: dictionary = ["a","b","c"], sentence = "aadsfasf absbs bbab cadsfafs"
Output: "a a b c"
Example 3:
Input: dictionary = ["a", "aa", "aaa", "aaaa"], sentence = "a aa a aaaa aaa aaa aaa aaaaaa bbb baba ababa"
Output: "a a a a a a a a bbb baba a"
Example 4:
Input: dictionary = ["catt","cat","bat","rat"], sentence = "the cattle was rattled by the battery"
Output: "the cat was rat by the bat"
Example 5:
Input: dictionary = ["ac","ab"], sentence = "it is abnormal that this solution is accepted"
Output: "it is ab that this solution is ac"
Constraints:
`1 <= dictionary.length <= 1000`
`1 <= dictionary[i].length <= 100`
`dictionary[i]` consists of only lower-case letters.
`1 <= sentence.length <= 10^6`
`sentence` consists of only lower-case letters and spaces.
The number of words in `sentence` is in the range `[1, 1000]`
The length of each word in `sentence` is in the range `[1, 1000]`
Each two consecutive words in `sentence` will be separated by exactly one space.
`sentence` does not have leading or trailing spaces.