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String Dsa Patterns FAANG

The document outlines 40 essential string patterns commonly used in data structures and algorithms (DSA) for FAANG interviews. It categorizes various techniques such as Sliding Window, Two Pointers, and Dynamic Programming, providing examples of problems that can be solved using each pattern. These patterns are crucial for efficiently tackling string-related challenges in coding interviews.

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String Dsa Patterns FAANG

The document outlines 40 essential string patterns commonly used in data structures and algorithms (DSA) for FAANG interviews. It categorizes various techniques such as Sliding Window, Two Pointers, and Dynamic Programming, providing examples of problems that can be solved using each pattern. These patterns are crucial for efficiently tackling string-related challenges in coding interviews.

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40 Essential String Patterns for FAANG DSA

1. Sliding Window Pattern - Longest substring with K distinct characters, Minimum window substring
2. Two Pointers Pattern - Valid palindrome, Reverse words in a string
3. Fast & Slow Pointers - Detect cycle in a linked list, Finding middle of a sequence
4. Hashing & Frequency Count - Anagram detection, Longest substring without repeating characters
5. Trie (Prefix Tree) - Word search in a dictionary, Auto-complete suggestions
6. Backtracking - Generate all valid parentheses, Palindrome partitioning
7. Sorting-Based Pattern - Group anagrams, Largest number from array of numbers as strings
8. Stack-Based Pattern - Valid parentheses, Decode string like '3[a]2[bc]'
9. Greedy Pattern - Longest happy string, Reorganize string without adjacent duplicates
10. KMP Algorithm - String pattern matching, Count occurrences of a substring efficiently
11. Rabin-Karp Algorithm - Find substring in large text efficiently, Plagiarism detection
12. Z-Algorithm - Fast string searching, Finding periodicity in a string
13. Boyer-Moore Algorithm - Fast pattern matching for large alphabets, Search DNA sequences
14. Aho-Corasick Algorithm - Search multiple keywords in a text simultaneously, Spam filtering
15. Suffix Array & Suffix Tree - Longest repeated substring, Lexicographical order
16. Manacher's Algorithm - Find longest palindromic substring in O(N), Count palindromic substrings
17. Dynamic Programming - Longest common subsequence, Edit distance, Wildcard matching
18. Bit Manipulation - Find if string has all unique characters, Count set bits in binary string
19. Matrix-Based String Problems - Word search in 2D grid, Longest increasing path
20. Binary Search on Strings - Lexicographical order search, Finding smallest rotation
21. Deque & Monotonic Queue - Find lexicographically smallest subsequence, Remove K digits
22. Frequency Sorting & Bucket Sort - Sort characters by frequency, Reorder string
23. Run-Length Encoding - String compression 'aaabbc' -> 'a3b2c1', Decode run-length encoding
24. Interval Merging - Merging overlapping substrings, Concatenating duplicate substrings
25. Meet-in-the-Middle - Subset sum variation, Splitting string into equal sum parts
26. Grid Traversal - Minimum steps to transform word, Finding paths in word puzzle
27. Mo's Algorithm - Answering substring queries efficiently, Counting distinct characters in range
28. Graph-Based Problems - Word ladder problem, Topological sorting of characters
29. Euler Tour for Tree Queries - Find longest common ancestor, Query repeated subsequences
30. Matrix Exponentiation - Counting ways to transform string, Fibonacci-like string computations
31. Sliding Hash Window - Find longest repeating substring efficiently, Detect plagiarism
32. Lyndon Factorization - Find lexicographically smallest substring rotation
33. Heaps/Priority Queue - Find K most frequent words, Reorganize string without duplicates
34. BWT (Burrows-Wheeler Transform) - Used for data compression, Improves pattern search efficiency
35. Sparse Table - Answer LCP queries in O(1), Solve substring equality queries efficiently
36. Segment Tree - Answer range queries like 'Most frequent character in a substring'
37. Fenwick Tree (BIT) - Count vowels/consonants in range, Perform prefix updates
38. Suffix Automaton - Find number of distinct substrings efficiently, Check substring existence
39. Heavy-Light Decomposition (HLD) - Efficiently query longest common prefix in dynamic updates
40. Trie with Bitwise Manipulation - Find longest XOR pair from a set of binary strings

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