You are given a 0-indexed string array words.
Let's define a boolean function isPrefixAndSuffix that takes two strings, str1 and str2:
isPrefixAndSuffix(str1, str2) returns true if str1 is both a prefix and a suffix of str2, and false otherwise.For example, isPrefixAndSuffix("aba", "ababa") is true because "aba" is a prefix of "ababa" and also a suffix, but isPrefixAndSuffix("abc", "abcd") is false.
Return an integer denoting the number of index pairs (i, j) such that i < j, and isPrefixAndSuffix(words[i], words[j]) is true.
Example 1:
Input: words = ["a","aba","ababa","aa"]
Output: 4
Explanation: In this example, the counted index pairs are:
i = 0 and j = 1 because isPrefixAndSuffix("a", "aba") is true.
i = 0 and j = 2 because isPrefixAndSuffix("a", "ababa") is true.
i = 0 and j = 3 because isPrefixAndSuffix("a", "aa") is true.
i = 1 and j = 2 because isPrefixAndSuffix("aba", "ababa") is true.
Therefore, the answer is 4.
Example 2:
Input: words = ["pa","papa","ma","mama"]
Output: 2
Explanation: In this example, the counted index pairs are:
i = 0 and j = 1 because isPrefixAndSuffix("pa", "papa") is true.
i = 2 and j = 3 because isPrefixAndSuffix("ma", "mama") is true.
Therefore, the answer is 2.
Example 3:
Input: words = ["abab","ab"]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this example, the only valid index pair is i = 0 and j = 1, and isPrefixAndSuffix("abab", "ab") is false.
Therefore, the answer is 0.
Constraints:
1 <= words.length <= 501 <= words[i].length <= 10words[i] consists only of lowercase English letters.This approach involves checking each possible pair of indices (i, j) to determine if words[i] is both a prefix and suffix of words[j]. We will simply iterate over all pairs of the words and apply the prefix and suffix condition.
This Python function counts the number of pairs (i, j) such that words[i] is both a prefix and suffix of words[j]. It defines a helper function is_prefix_and_suffix to perform this check and iterates over all pairs of the array to count the valid ones.
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Time Complexity: O(n^2 * m), where n is the number of words and m is the average length of a word.
Space Complexity: O(1) as we are using constant extra space.
An optimized approach would require reducing the number of unnecessary comparisons. Since the constraints are small, a direct approach is feasible. However, if required, we can attempt to use advanced techniques such as hashing or Rabin-Karp algorithm for prefix-suffix matching which can potentially reduce time complexity by ensuring we're not redundantly checking characters.
This optimized Python solution preprocesses each word to store all possible prefixes in a dictionary. Then for each word, it fetches potential matches from the dictionary where words are prefixes and checks them for suffix property.
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Time Complexity: O(n * m), where n is the number of words and m is the average length of a word. The improvement comes from reducing unnecessary suffix checks.
Space Complexity: O(n * m) due to storing prefixes.
| Approach | Complexity |
|---|---|
| Brute Force Approach | Time Complexity: O(n^2 * m), where n is the number of words and m is the average length of a word. |
| Optimized Approach Using String Matching | Time Complexity: O(n * m), where n is the number of words and m is the average length of a word. The improvement comes from reducing unnecessary suffix checks. |
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