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Java Coding Problems
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Java Coding Problems

by Anghel Leonard
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
18h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Inserting in a Trie

Now, let's focus on the algorithm for inserting words in a Trie:

  1. Consider the current node as the root.
  2. Loop the given word character by character, starting from the first character.
  3. If the current node (the Map<Character, Node>) maps a value (a Node) for the current character, then simply advance to this node. Otherwise, create a new Node, set its character equal to the current character, and advance to this node.
  4. Repeat from step 2 (pass to next character) until the end of the word.
  5. Mark the current node as a node that completes the word.

In terms of code lines, we have the following:

public void insert(String word) {  Node node = root;  for (int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) {    char ch = word.charAt(i); Function function ...
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