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269. Alien Dictionary

https://leetcode.com/problems/alien-dictionary/

Difficulty:

Hard

Description

There is a new alien language which uses the latin alphabet. However, the order among letters are unknown to you. You receive a list of non-empty words from the dictionary, where words are sorted lexicographically by the rules of this new language. Derive the order of letters in this language.

Example 1:

Input:
[
  "wrt",
  "wrf",
  "er",
  "ett",
  "rftt"
]

Output: "wertf"

Example 2:

Input:
[
  "z",
  "x"
]

Output: "zx"

Example 3:

Input:
[
  "z",
  "x",
  "z"
] 

Output: "" 
Explanation: The order is invalid, so return "".

Note:

  • You may assume all letters are in lowercase.
  • You may assume that if a is a prefix of b, then a must appear before b in the given dictionary.
  • If the order is invalid, return an empty string.
  • There may be multiple valid order of letters, return any one of them is fine.