Code RoomDecode ways
MediumPrep Room Coding #1173

Decode ways

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~25 min

A message of digits is encoded by mapping 'A'->1, 'B'->2, ..., 'Z'->26. Given a non-empty digit string, return the number of ways to decode it back into letters. A valid single digit is 1-9 and a valid two-digit group is 10-26; a leading '0' in a group is invalid. The string length is at most 100.

Implement
num_decodings(s: str) → int
Examples
in["226"]out3
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
["226"]3not run yetsample