Word Pattern

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You are given a pattern and a string s, find if s follows the same pattern.

Here follow means a full match, such that there is a bijection between a letter in pattern and a non-empty word in s. Specifically:

  • Each letter in pattern maps to exactly one unique word in s.
  • Each unique word in s maps to exactly one letter in pattern.
  • No two letters map to the same word, and no two words map to the same letter.

Example 1:

Input: pattern = "abba", s = "dog cat cat dog"

Output: true

Explanation: The bijection can be established as:

  • 'a' maps to "dog".
  • 'b' maps to "cat".

Example 2:

Input: pattern = "abba", s = "dog cat cat fish"

Output: false

Explanation: The bijection cannot be established as:

  • 'a' maps to "dog".
  • 'b' maps to "cat".
  • The second 'a' should map to "dog", but it maps to "fish" instead.

Example 3:

Input: pattern = "aaaa", s = "dog cat cat dog"

Output: false

Explanation: The bijection cannot be established as:

  • 'a' maps to "dog" for the first occurrence.
  • The second 'a' should also map to "dog", but it maps to "cat" instead.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= pattern.length <= 300
  • pattern contains only lowercase English letters.
  • 1 <= s.length <= 3000
  • s contains only lowercase English letters and spaces ' '.
  • s does not contain any leading or trailing spaces.
  • All the words in s are separated by a single space.

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Solution 1
||Ln 1, Col 1

pattern =

s =