Mid From PDF Coding C# Coding Interview

Implement a trie (prefix tree) for string matching?

public class TrieNode {
public TrieNode[] Children = new TrieNode[26];
public bool IsEnd = false;
}
public class Trie {
private TrieNode root;
public Trie() {
root = new TrieNode();
}
public void Insert(string word) {
TrieNode node = root;
foreach (char c in word) {
int idx = c - 'a';
if (node.Children[idx] == null)
node.Children[idx] = new TrieNode();
node = node.Children[idx];
}
node.IsEnd = true;
}
public bool Search(string word) {
TrieNode node = SearchNode(word);
return node != null && node.IsEnd;
}
public bool StartsWith(string prefix) {
return SearchNode(prefix) != null;
}
private TrieNode SearchNode(string word) {
TrieNode node = root;
foreach (char c in word) {
int idx = c - 'a';
if (node.Children[idx] == null) return null;

Follow on:

node = node.Children[idx];
}
return node;
}
}

Explanation:

Standard trie with insert, search, and prefix checking.

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