Word formation using concatenation of two dictionary words

Given a dictionary find out if given word can be made by two words in the dictionary.

Note: Words in the dictionary must be unique and the word to be formed should not be a repetition of same words that are present in the Trie.

Examples:

Input : dictionary[] = {"news", "abcd", "tree", 
                              "geeks", "paper"}   
        word = "newspaper"
Output : Yes
We can form "newspaper" using "news" and "paper"

Input : dictionary[] = {"geeks", "code", "xyz", 
                           "forgeeks", "paper"}   
        word = "geeksforgeeks"
Output : Yes

Input : dictionary[] = {"geek", "code", "xyz", 
                           "forgeeks", "paper"}   
        word = "geeksforgeeks"
Output : No

Recommended: Please try your approach on {IDE} first, before moving on to the solution.

The idea is store all words of dictionary in a Trie. We do prefix search for given word. Once we find a prefix, we search for rest of the word.

Algorithm :

1- Store all the words of the dictionary in a Trie.
2- Start searching for the given word in Trie.
   If it partially matched then split it into two
   parts and then search for the second part in
   the Trie.
3- If both found, then return true.
4- Otherwise return false.

Below is the implementation of above idea.

C++

// C++ program to check if a string can be 
// formed by concatenating two words 
#include<bits/stdc++.h> 
using namespace std; 
  
// Converts key current character into index 
// use only 'a' through 'z' 
#define char_int(c) ((int)c - (int)'a') 
  
// Alphabet size 
#define SIZE (26) 
  
// Trie Node 
struct TrieNode 
{ 
    TrieNode *children[SIZE]; 
  
    // isLeaf is true if the node represents 
    // end of a word 
    bool isLeaf; 
}; 
  
// Returns new trie node (initialized to NULLs) 
TrieNode *getNode() 
{ 
    TrieNode * newNode = new TrieNode; 
    newNode->isLeaf = false; 
    for (int i =0 ; i< SIZE ; i++) 
        newNode->children[i] = NULL; 
    return newNode; 
} 
  
// If not present, inserts key into Trie 
// If the key is prefix of trie node, just 
// mark leaf node 
void insert(TrieNode *root, string Key) 
{ 
    int n = Key.length(); 
    TrieNode * pCrawl = root; 
  
    for (int i=0; i<n; i++) 
    { 
        int index = char_int(Key[i]); 
  
        if (pCrawl->children[index] == NULL) 
            pCrawl->children[index] = getNode(); 
  
        pCrawl = pCrawl->children[index]; 
    } 
  
    // make last node as leaf node 
    pCrawl->isLeaf = true; 
} 
  
// Searches a prefix of key. If prefix is present, 
// returns its ending position in string. Else 
// returns -1. 
int findPrefix(struct TrieNode *root, string key) 
{ 
    int pos = -1, level; 
    struct TrieNode *pCrawl = root; 
  
    for (level = 0; level < key.length(); level++) 
    { 
        int index = char_int(key[level]); 
        if (pCrawl->isLeaf == true) 
            pos = level; 
        if (!pCrawl->children[index]) 
            return pos; 
  
        pCrawl = pCrawl->children[index]; 
    } 
    if (pCrawl != NULL && pCrawl->isLeaf) 
        return level; 
} 
  
// Function to check if word formation is possible 
// or not 
bool isPossible(struct TrieNode* root, string word) 
{ 
    // Search for the word in the trie and 
    // store its position upto which it is matched 
    int len = findPrefix(root, word); 
  
    // print not possible if len = -1 i.e. not 
    // matched in trie 
    if (len == -1) 
        return false; 
  
    // If word is partially matched in the dictionary 
    // as another word 
    // search for the word made after splitting 
    // the given word up to the length it is 
    // already,matched 
    string split_word(word, len, word.length()-(len)); 
    int split_len = findPrefix(root, split_word); 
  
    // check if word formation is possible or not 
    return (len + split_len == word.length()); 
} 
  
// Driver program to test above function 
int main() 
{ 
    // Let the given dictionary be following 
    vector<string> dictionary = {"geeks", "forgeeks", 
                                    "quiz", "geek"}; 
  
    string word = "geeksquiz"; //word to be formed 
  
    // root Node of trie 
    TrieNode *root = getNode(); 
  
    // insert all words of dictionary into trie 
    for (int i=0; i<dictionary.size(); i++) 
        insert(root, dictionary[i]); 
  
    isPossible(root, word) ? cout << "Yes": 
                             cout << "No"; 
  
    return 0; 
} 

Java

import java.util.ArrayList; 
import java.util.List; 
  
// Java program to check if a string can be  
// formed by concatenating two words  
public class GFG {  
          
    // Alphabet size  
    final static int SIZE = 26;  
      
    // Trie Node  
    static class TrieNode  
    {  
        TrieNode[] children = new TrieNode[SIZE];  
      
        // isLeaf is true if the node represents  
        // end of a word  
        boolean isLeaf;  
          
        // constructor  
        public TrieNode() {  
            isLeaf = false;  
            for (int i =0 ; i< SIZE ; i++)  
                    children[i] = null;  
        }  
    }  
      
      
    static TrieNode root;  
      
    // If not present, inserts key into Trie  
    // If the key is prefix of trie node, just  
    // mark leaf node  
    static void insert(TrieNode root, String Key)  
    {  
        int n = Key.length();  
        TrieNode pCrawl = root;  
      
        for (int i=0; i<n; i++)  
        {  
            int index = Key.charAt(i) - 'a';  
      
            if (pCrawl.children[index] == null)  
                pCrawl.children[index] = new TrieNode();  
      
            pCrawl = pCrawl.children[index];  
        }  
      
        // make last node as leaf node  
        pCrawl.isLeaf = true;  
    }  
      
    // Searches a prefix of key. If prefix is present,  
    // returns its ending position in string. Else  
    // returns -1.  
    static List<Integer> findPrefix(TrieNode root, String key)  
    {  
        List<Integer> prefixPositions = new ArrayList<Integer>(); 
        int level;  
        TrieNode pCrawl = root;  
      
        for (level = 0; level < key.length(); level++)  
        {  
            int index = key.charAt(level) - 'a';  
            if (pCrawl.isLeaf == true)  
                prefixPositions.add(level);  
            if (pCrawl.children[index] == null)  
                return prefixPositions;  
      
            pCrawl = pCrawl.children[index];  
        }  
        if (pCrawl != null && pCrawl.isLeaf)  
            prefixPositions.add(level);   
          
        return prefixPositions;   
    }  
      
    // Function to check if word formation is possible  
    // or not  
    static boolean isPossible(TrieNode root, String word)  
    {  
        // Search for the word in the trie and get its prefix positions 
        // upto which there is matched  
        List<Integer> prefixPositions1 = findPrefix(root, word);  
      
        // Word formation is not possible if the word did not have  
        // at least one prefix match 
        if (prefixPositions1.isEmpty())  
            return false;  
      
        // Search for rest of substring for each prefix match 
        for (Integer len1 : prefixPositions1) { 
            String restOfSubstring = word.substring(len1, word.length());  
            List<Integer> prefixPositions2 = findPrefix(root, restOfSubstring); 
            for (Integer len2 : prefixPositions2) { 
                // check if word formation is possible 
                if (len1 + len2 == word.length()) 
                    return true; 
            } 
        } 
          
        return false; 
    }  
      
    // Driver program to test above function  
    public static void main(String args[])  
    {  
        // Let the given dictionary be following  
        String[] dictionary = {"news", "newspa", "paper", "geek"};  
      
        String word = "newspaper"; //word to be formed  
      
        // root Node of trie  
        root = new TrieNode();  
      
        // insert all words of dictionary into trie  
        for (int i=0; i<dictionary.length; i++)  
            insert(root, dictionary[i]);  
      
        if(isPossible(root, word))  
            System.out.println( "Yes");  
        else
            System.out.println("No");  
    }  
} 
// This code is contributed by Sumit Ghosh 
// Updated by Narendra Jha 

C#

// C# program to check if a string can be  
// formed by concatenating two words  
using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic; 
  
class GFG  
{  
          
    // Alphabet size  
    readonly public static int SIZE = 26;  
      
    // Trie Node  
    public class TrieNode  
    {  
        public TrieNode []children = new TrieNode[SIZE];  
      
        // isLeaf is true if the node  
        // represents end of a word  
        public bool isLeaf;  
          
        // constructor  
        public TrieNode()  
        {  
            isLeaf = false;  
            for (int i = 0 ; i < SIZE ; i++)  
                    children[i] = null;  
        }  
    }  
    static TrieNode root;  
      
    // If not present, inserts key into Trie  
    // If the key is prefix of trie node, just  
    // mark leaf node  
    static void insert(TrieNode root, String Key)  
    {  
        int n = Key.Length;  
        TrieNode pCrawl = root;  
      
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)  
        {  
            int index = Key[i] - 'a';  
      
            if (pCrawl.children[index] == null)  
                pCrawl.children[index] = new TrieNode();  
      
            pCrawl = pCrawl.children[index];  
        }  
      
        // make last node as leaf node  
        pCrawl.isLeaf = true;  
    }  
      
    // Searches a prefix of key. If prefix  
    // is present, returns its ending position  
    //  in string. Else returns -1.  
    static List<int> findPrefix(TrieNode root, String key)  
    {  
        List<int> prefixPositions = new List<int>();  
        int level;  
        TrieNode pCrawl = root;  
      
        for (level = 0; level < key.Length; level++)  
        {  
            int index = key[level] - 'a';  
            if (pCrawl.isLeaf == true)  
                prefixPositions.Add(level);  
            if (pCrawl.children[index] == null)  
                return prefixPositions;  
      
            pCrawl = pCrawl.children[index];  
        }  
        if (pCrawl != null && pCrawl.isLeaf)  
            prefixPositions.Add(level);  
          
        return prefixPositions;  
    }  
      
    // Function to check if word   
    // formation is possible or not  
    static bool isPossible(TrieNode root, String word)  
    {  
        // Search for the word in the trie  
        // and get its prefix positions  
        // upto which there is matched  
        List<int> prefixPositions1 = findPrefix(root, word);  
      
        // Word formation is not possible  
        // if the word did not have  
        // at least one prefix match  
        if (prefixPositions1.Count==0)  
            return false;  
      
        // Search for rest of substring  
        // for each prefix match  
        foreach (int len1 in prefixPositions1)  
        {  
            String restOfSubstring = word.Substring(len1, 
                                        word.Length-len1);  
            List<int> prefixPositions2 = findPrefix(root, 
                                        restOfSubstring);  
            foreach (int len2 in prefixPositions2)  
            {  
                  
                // check if word formation is possible  
                if (len1 + len2 == word.Length)  
                    return true;  
            }  
        }  
        return false;  
    }  
      
    // Driver code  
    public static void Main(String []args)  
    {  
        // Let the given dictionary be following  
        String[] dictionary = {"news", "newspa", "paper", "geek"};  
      
        // word to be formed  
        String word = "newspaper";  
      
        // root Node of trie  
        root = new TrieNode();  
      
        // insert all words of dictionary into trie  
        for (int i = 0; i < dictionary.Length; i++)  
            insert(root, dictionary[i]);  
      
        if(isPossible(root, word))  
            Console.WriteLine( "Yes");  
        else
            Console.WriteLine("No");  
    }  
}  
  
// This code is contributed by 29AjayKumar 

Output:

Yes

Exercise :
A generalized version of the problem is to check if a given word can be formed using concatenation of 1 or more dictionary words. Write code for the generalized version.

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Recommended: Please try your approach on {IDE} first, before moving on to the solution.

C++

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