Word Pattern 🧩

Given a pattern and a string s, find if s follows the same pattern.

Here "follow" means a full match, such that there is a bijection between a letter in pattern and a non-empty word in s.

πŸ”’ Examples

Example 1:

Input: pattern = "abba", s = "dog cat cat dog" Output: true

Example 2:

Input: pattern = "abba", s = "dog cat cat fish" Output: false

Example 3:

Input: pattern = "aaaa", s = "dog cat cat dog" Output: false

πŸ“œ Constraints:

  • 1 <= pattern.length <= 300

  • pattern contains only lower-case English letters.

  • 1 <= s.length <= 3000

  • s contains only lowercase English letters and spaces ' '.

  • s does not contain any leading or trailing spaces.

  • All the words in s are separated by a single space.

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