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139 word break

  1. Word Break

Medium

Given a string s and a dictionary of strings wordDict, return true if s can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of one or more dictionary words.

Note that the same word in the dictionary may be reused multiple times in the segmentation.

Example 1:

Input: s = "leetcode", wordDict = ["leet","code"]
Output: true
Explanation: Return true because "leetcode" can be segmented as "leet code".

Example 2:

Input: s = "applepenapple", wordDict = ["apple","pen"]
Output: true
Explanation: Return true because "applepenapple" can be segmented as "apple pen apple".
Note that you are allowed to reuse a dictionary word.

Example 3:

Input: s = "catsandog", wordDict = ["cats","dog","sand","and","cat"]
Output: false

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 300
  • 1 <= wordDict.length <= 1000
  • 1 <= wordDict[i].length <= 20
  • s and wordDict[i] consist of only lowercase English letters.
  • All the strings of wordDict are unique.

Solution

class Solution:
    def wordBreak(self, s: str, wordDict: List[str]) -> bool:
        wordSet = set(wordDict)

        @functools.cache
        def wordBreak(s: str):
            if s in wordSet:
                return True

            for i in range(len(s)):
                if s[:i] in wordSet and wordBreak(s[i:]):
                    return True

        return wordBreak(s)