Strings Differ by One Character(LeetCode 1554):

Problem

Given a list of strings dict where all the strings are of the same length.

Return true if there are 2 strings that only differ by 1 character in the same index, otherwise return false.

 

Example 1:

Input: dict = ["abcd","acbd", "aacd"]
Output: true
Explanation: Strings "abcd" and "aacd" differ only by one character in the index 1.

Example 2:

Input: dict = ["ab","cd","yz"]
Output: false

Example 3:

Input: dict = ["abcd","cccc","abyd","abab"]
Output: true

 

Constraints:

  • The number of characters in dict <= 105
  • dict[i].length == dict[j].length
  • dict[i] should be unique.
  • dict[i] contains only lowercase English letters.

 

Follow up: Could you solve this problem in O(n * m) where n is the length of dict and m is the length of each string.