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#208 Implement Trie (Prefix Tree)

APPROACH

A trie (pronounced as "try") or prefix tree is a tree data structure used to efficiently store and retrieve keys in a dataset of strings. There are various applications of this data structure, such as autocomplete and spellchecker.

Implement the Trie class:

- Trie() Initializes the trie object.

- void insert(String word) Inserts the string word into the trie.

- boolean search(String word) Returns true if the string word is in the trie (i.e., was inserted before), and false otherwise.

- boolean startsWith(String prefix) Returns true if there is a previously inserted string word that has the prefix prefix, and false otherwise.

Example 1:

Input

["Trie", "insert", "search", "search", "startsWith", "insert", "search"]

[[], ["apple"], ["apple"], ["app"], ["app"], ["app"], ["app"]]

Output

[null, null, true, false, true, null, true]

Example 2:

Explanation

Trie trie = new Trie();

trie.insert("apple");

trie.search("apple"); // return True

trie.search("app"); // return False

trie.startsWith("app"); // return True

trie.insert("app");

trie.search("app"); // return True

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