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1023. Camelcase Matching

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Given an array of strings queries and a string pattern, return a boolean array answer where answer[i] is true if queries[i] matches pattern, and false otherwise.

A query word queries[i] matches pattern if you can insert lowercase English letters into the pattern so that it equals the query. You may insert a character at any position in pattern or you may choose not to insert any characters at all.

 

Example 1:

Input: queries = ["FooBar","FooBarTest","FootBall","FrameBuffer","ForceFeedBack"], pattern = "FB"
Output: [true,false,true,true,false]
Explanation: "FooBar" can be generated like this "F" + "oo" + "B" + "ar".
"FootBall" can be generated like this "F" + "oot" + "B" + "all".
"FrameBuffer" can be generated like this "F" + "rame" + "B" + "uffer".

Example 2:

Input: queries = ["FooBar","FooBarTest","FootBall","FrameBuffer","ForceFeedBack"], pattern = "FoBa"
Output: [true,false,true,false,false]
Explanation: "FooBar" can be generated like this "Fo" + "o" + "Ba" + "r".
"FootBall" can be generated like this "Fo" + "ot" + "Ba" + "ll".

Example 3:

Input: queries = ["FooBar","FooBarTest","FootBall","FrameBuffer","ForceFeedBack"], pattern = "FoBaT"
Output: [false,true,false,false,false]
Explanation: "FooBarTest" can be generated like this "Fo" + "o" + "Ba" + "r" + "T" + "est".

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= pattern.length, queries.length <= 100
  • 1 <= queries[i].length <= 100
  • queries[i] and pattern consist of English letters.

Hints

Hint 1
Given a single pattern and word, how can we solve it?
Hint 2
One way to do it is using a DP (pos1, pos2) where pos1 is a pointer to the word and pos2 to the pattern and returns true if we can match the pattern with the given word.
Hint 3
We have two scenarios: The first one is when `word[pos1] == pattern[pos2]`, then the transition will be just DP(pos1 + 1, pos2 + 1). The second scenario is when `word[pos1]` is lowercase then we can add this character to the pattern so that the transition is just DP(pos1 + 1, pos2) The case base is `if (pos1 == n && pos2 == m) return true;` Where n and m are the sizes of the strings word and pattern respectively.
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