- Difficulty: Hard
- Tags: LeetCode, Hard, String, Dynamic Programming, leetcode-2060, O(m * n * k), O(min(m, n) * k), DP, Memoization
Problem
An original string, consisting of lowercase English letters, can be encoded by the following steps:
- Arbitrarily split it into a sequence of some number of non-empty substrings.
- Arbitrarily choose some elements (possibly none) of the sequence, and replace each with its length (as a numeric string).
- Concatenate the sequence as the encoded string.
For example, one way to encode an original string "abcdefghijklmnop"
might be:
- Split it as a sequence:
["ab", "cdefghijklmn", "o", "p"]
. - Choose the second and third elements to be replaced by their lengths, respectively. The sequence becomes
["ab", "12", "1", "p"]
. - Concatenate the elements of the sequence to get the encoded string:
"ab121p"
.
Given two encoded strings s1
and s2
, consisting of lowercase English letters and digits 1-9
(inclusive), return true
if there exists an original string that could be encoded as both s1
and s2
. Otherwise, return false
.
Note: The test cases are generated such that the number of consecutive digits in s1
and s2
does not exceed 3
.
Example 1:
Input: s1 = "internationalization", s2 = "i18n" Output: true Explanation: It is possible that "internationalization" was the original string. - "internationalization" -> Split: ["internationalization"] -> Do not replace any element -> Concatenate: "internationalization", which is s1. - "internationalization" -> Split: ["i", "nternationalizatio", "n"] -> Replace: ["i", "18", "n"] -> Concatenate: "i18n", which is s2
Example 2:
Input: s1 = "l123e", s2 = "44" Output: true Explanation: It is possible that "leetcode" was the original string. - "leetcode" -> Split: ["l", "e", "et", "cod", "e"] -> Replace: ["l", "1", "2", "3", "e"] -> Concatenate: "l123e", which is s1. - "leetcode" -> Split: ["leet", "code"] -> Replace: ["4", "4"] -> Concatenate: "44", which is s2.
Example 3:
Input: s1 = "a5b", s2 = "c5b" Output: false Explanation: It is impossible. - The original string encoded as s1 must start with the letter 'a'. - The original string encoded as s2 must start with the letter 'c'.
Constraints:
1 <= s1.length, s2.length <= 40
s1
ands2
consist of digits1-9
(inclusive), and lowercase English letters only.- The number of consecutive digits in
s1
ands2
does not exceed3
.