Word Search
Amazonâ—Ź MediumINTERNNEW GRADONSITE INTERVIEWProblem statement
Given a rectangular character grid board and a string word, return true if word can be formed by a path through the grid. Otherwise, return false.
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Example 1
board = [["A","B","C","E"],["S","F","C","S"],["A","D","E","E"]]word = "ABCCED"return = trueThe path uses the top-row cells A, B, and C, then continues down to C, left to E, and left to D.
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