Stream of Characters

Implement the StreamChecker class as follows:

  • StreamChecker(words): Constructor, init the data structure with the given words.

  • query(letter): returns true if and only if for some k >= 1, the last k characters queried (in order from oldest to newest, including this letter just queried) spell one of the words in the given list.

Example:

StreamChecker streamChecker = new StreamChecker(["cd","f","kl"]); // init the dictionary.
streamChecker.query('a');          // return false
streamChecker.query('b');          // return false
streamChecker.query('c');          // return false
streamChecker.query('d');          // return true, because 'cd' is in the wordlist
streamChecker.query('e');          // return false
streamChecker.query('f');          // return true, because 'f' is in the wordlist
streamChecker.query('g');          // return false
streamChecker.query('h');          // return false
streamChecker.query('i');          // return false
streamChecker.query('j');          // return false
streamChecker.query('k');          // return false
streamChecker.query('l');          // return true, because 'kl' is in the wordlist

Note:

  • 1 <= words.length <= 2000

  • 1 <= words[i].length <= 2000

  • Words will only consist of lowercase English letters.

  • Queries will only consist of lowercase English letters.

  • The number of queries is at most 40000.

// Store the words in the trie with reverse order, and check the query string from the end

class StreamChecker {

    class TrieNode {
        boolean isWord;
        TrieNode[] next = new TrieNode[26];
    }

    TrieNode root = new TrieNode();
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    public StreamChecker(String[] words) {
        createTrie(words);
    }

    public boolean query(char letter) {
        sb.append(letter);
        TrieNode node = root;
        for (int i = sb.length() - 1; i >= 0 && node != null; i--) {
            char c = sb.charAt(i);
            node = node.next[c - 'a'];
            if (node != null && node.isWord) {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    private void createTrie(String[] words) {
        for (String s : words) {
            TrieNode node = root;
            int len = s.length();
            for (int i = len - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
                char c = s.charAt(i);
                if (node.next[c - 'a'] == null) {
                    node.next[c - 'a'] = new TrieNode();
                }
                node = node.next[c - 'a'];
            }
            node.isWord = true;
        }
    }
}

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