- Difficulty: Hard
- Tags: LeetCode, Hard, Bit Manipulation, Array, String, Dynamic Programming, Bitmask, leetcode-943, O(n^2 * (l^2 + 2^n)), O(n^2)
Problem
Given an array of strings words
, return the smallest string that contains each string in words
as a substring. If there are multiple valid strings of the smallest length, return any of them.
You may assume that no string in words
is a substring of another string in words
.
Example 1:
Input: words = ["alex","loves","leetcode"] Output: "alexlovesleetcode" Explanation: All permutations of "alex","loves","leetcode" would also be accepted.
Example 2:
Input: words = ["catg","ctaagt","gcta","ttca","atgcatc"] Output: "gctaagttcatgcatc"
Constraints:
1 <= words.length <= 12
1 <= words[i].length <= 20
words[i]
consists of lowercase English letters.- All the strings of
words
are unique.