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Design Add and Search Words Data Structure

Problem

Design a data structure that supports the following two operations: addWord(word) and search(word).

search(word) can search a literal word or a regular expression string containing only letters a-z or ..

A . means it can represent any one letter.

Note

You may assume that all words are consist of lowercase letters a-z.

Example

addWord("bad")
addWord("dad")
addWord("mad")
search("pad") // return false
search("bad") // return true
search(".ad") // return true
search("b..") // return true

Solution

Trie + DFS

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