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Trie Insert & Search
One node per character — shared prefixes, O(L) lookups
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1 / 31Insert "car" — start at the root and walk one letter at a time.
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trie.java
1import java.util.HashMap;2import java.util.Map;3 4public class Main {5 static class TrieNode {6 Map<Character, TrieNode> children = new HashMap<>();7 boolean isWord;8 }9 10 private final TrieNode root = new TrieNode();11 12 public void insert(String word) {13 TrieNode node = root;14 for (char character : word.toCharArray()) node = node.children.computeIfAbsent(character, key -> new TrieNode());15 node.isWord = true;16 }17 18 public boolean search(String word) {19 TrieNode node = root;20 for (char character : word.toCharArray()) {21 node = node.children.get(character);22 if (node == null) return false;23 }24 return node.isWord;25 }26 27}● Java
Insert / search
O(L)
Space
O(total chars)
Nodes
1
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0
