648. Replace Words solved in rust

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648. Replace Words

Problem

The problem is asking to find the shortest root of the given word in the dictionary and replace it with the root for each word in the sentence.

Example

Input: dict = ["cat", "bat", "rat"], sentence = "the cattle was rattled by the battery"
Output: "the cat was rat by the bat"

Key

The key to solve this problem is to use a Trie data structure to store the dictionary words. Then for each word in the sentence, try to find the shortest root in the Trie and replace it with the root.

Solution

use std::collections::HashMap;

pub struct Solution;

pub struct TrieNode {
    children: HashMap<char, Box<TrieNode>>,
    is_end: bool,
}

impl TrieNode {
    fn new() -> Self {
        Self {
            children: HashMap::new(),
            is_end: false,
        }
    }
}

pub struct Trie {
    root: Box<TrieNode>,
}

impl Trie {
    fn new() -> Self {
        Self {
            root: Box::new(TrieNode::new()),
        }
    }

    fn insert(&mut self, word: &str) {
        // get the root node as a pointer called current
        // iterate through the trie data structure, getting next child
        let mut current = &mut self.root;

        for ch in word.chars() {
            // for each character in the word we check if we already have a trie node
            // started at this char, if yes then we continue if no then we start a new node
            let child = current
                .children
                .entry(ch)
                .or_insert(Box::new(TrieNode::new()));

            // we navigate through the trie tree structure using the current/child pair
            current = child;
        }

        // mark the node at the last letter to be true
        current.is_end = true;
    }

    fn shortest_root(&self, word: &str) -> String {
        // create a buffer to store the progress of already found characters
        let mut buffer = String::new();

        // use the same current/child way to navigate through the (trie) tree
        let mut current = &self.root;

        // check all the chars in current word
        for ch in word.chars() {
            // if we found a letter in the trie we append it to the existing buffer
            if let Some(child) = current.children.get(&ch) {
                buffer.push(ch);

                // once the node is an end word we need to return accumulated buffer as this being the
                // shortest root for the word
                if child.is_end {
                    return buffer;
                }

                current = child;
            } else {
                // if the letter was not found this means there is no prefix root for this word
                // return an empty string
                return String::new();
            }
        }

        return buffer;
    }
}

impl Solution {
    pub fn replace_words(dictionary: Vec<String>, sentence: String) -> String {
        let mut trie = Trie::new();
        let words: Vec<_> = sentence.split_whitespace().collect();
        let mut result: Vec<_> = Vec::with_capacity(words.len());

        // Add all words in the dictioary to the Trie Data structure
        for word in dictionary {
            trie.insert(&word);
        }

        for word in words {
            // get the shortest root, output will be either empty string or a word from the dictionary
            let shortest_root = trie.shortest_root(word);

            if shortest_root.is_empty() {
                result.push(word.to_string());
            } else {
                result.push(shortest_root.to_string());
            }
        }

        // join all the words to return the new sentence
        result.join(" ")
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    #[test]
    fn it_works() {
        let scenarios = vec![
            (
                (
                    vec!["cat".to_string(), "bat".to_string(), "rat".to_string()],
                    "the cattle was rattled by the battery".to_string(),
                ),
                "the cat was rat by the bat".to_string(),
            ),
            (
                (
                    vec!["a".to_string(), "b".to_string(), "c".to_string()],
                    "aadsfasf absbs bbab cadsfafs".to_string(),
                ),
                "a a b c".to_string(),
            ),
            (
                (
                    vec![
                        "a".to_string(),
                        "aa".to_string(),
                        "aaa".to_string(),
                        "aaaa".to_string(),
                    ],
                    "a aa a aaaa aaa aaa aaa aaaaaa bbb baba ababa".to_string(),
                ),
                "a a a a a a a a bbb baba a".to_string(),
            ),
        ];

        scenarios
            .into_iter()
            .enumerate()
            .for_each(|(idx, ((dictionary, sentence), expected))| {
                let result = Solution::replace_words(dictionary, sentence);
                assert_eq!(result, expected);
                println!("  ✓ scenario {}", idx + 1)
            });
    }
}

Analysis

The time complexity of this solution is O(n) where n is the number of words in the sentence. The space complexity is O(n) where n is the number of words in the dictionary.

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