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Design Word Search Data Structure

by Pawan Kumar @jsartisan

Design a data structure that supports adding words and searching with wildcards.

The WordDictionary class should support:

• addWord(word): Adds a word to the dictionary
• search(word): Returns true if any stored word matches the pattern
  • Pattern can contain dots '.' that match any letter

Constraints:

• 1 ≤ word.length ≤ 20
• addWord: word contains only lowercase letters
• search: word contains only dots or lowercase letters

Examples:

const dict = new WordDictionary();
dict.addWord("day");
dict.addWord("bay");
dict.addWord("may");
dict.search("say");   // returns false
dict.search("day");   // returns true
dict.search(".ay");   // returns true (matches day, bay, may)
dict.search("b..");   // returns true (matches bay)