Code RoomWord break
HardPrep Room Coding #1578

Word break

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~35 min

Given a string and a dictionary of words, return whether the string can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of dictionary words.

Implement
word_break(s: str, word_dict: list[str]) → bool
Examples
in["notebook",["note","book"]]outtrue
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
["notebook",["note","book"]]truenot run yetsample