[Solved] Given two strings s and t, return true if they are equal when both are typed into empty text editors. ‘#’ means a backspace character.

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Question

Given two strings s and t, return true if they are equal when both are typed into empty text editors'#' means a backspace character.

Note that after backspacing an empty text, the text will continue empty.

Example 1:

Input: s = "ab#c", t = "ad#c"
Output: true
Explanation: Both s and t become "ac".

Example 2:

Input: s = "ab##", t = "c#d#"
Output: true
Explanation: Both s and t become "".

Example 3:

Input: s = "a#c", t = "b"
Output: false
Explanation: s becomes "c" while t becomes "b".

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length, t.length <= 200
  • s and t only contain lowercase letters and '#' characters.

Follow up: Can you solve it in O(n) time and O(1) space?

Python Solution

class Solution:
    def backspaceCompare(self, S: str, T: str) -> bool:
        def bckspc(string):
            stack=[]
            for i in string:
                if i =='#':
                    try:
                        stack.pop()
                    except:
                        pass
                else:
                    stack.append(i)
            return ''.join(stack)

        return (bckspc(S)==bckspc(T))
Abhishek Sharma
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