A string can be abbreviated by replacing any number of non-adjacent, non-empty substrings with their lengths. The lengths should not have leading zeros.
For example, a string such as
"substitution"
could be abbreviated as (but not limited to):
"s10n"
("s ubstitutio n"
)"sub4u4"
("sub stit u tion"
)"12"
("substitution"
)"su3i1u2on"
("su bst i t u ti on"
)"substitution"
(no substrings replaced)The following are not valid abbreviations:
"s55n"
("s ubsti tutio n"
, the replaced substrings are adjacent)"s010n"
(has leading zeros)"s0ubstitution"
(replaces an empty substring)Given a string
word
and an abbreviationabbr
A substring is a contiguous non-empty sequence of characters within a string.
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