Long Pressed Name
Your friend is typing his name into a keyboard. Sometimes, when typing a character c, the key might get long pressed, and the character will be typed 1 or more times.
You examine the typed characters of the keyboard. Return true if it is possible that it was your friend's name, with some characters (possibly none) being long pressed.
Example 1
Input
name = "alex", typed = "aaleex"Output
true'a' and 'e' in 'alex' were long pressed.
Example 2
Input
name = "saeed", typed = "ssaaedd"Output
false'e' must have been pressed twice, but it was not in the typed output.
Constraints
- 1 <= name.length, typed.length <= 1000
- name and typed consist of only lowercase English letters.
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