Word Pattern

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
Inputpattern = "abba", s = "dog cat cat dog"
Outputtrue
The bijection can be established because 'a' maps to "dog" and 'b' maps to "cat".
Example 2
Inputpattern = "abba", s = "dog cat cat fish"
Outputfalse
The pattern would require the final word to be "dog", but it is "fish" instead.

Constraints

  • 1 <= pattern.length <= 300
  • pattern contains only lower-case 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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