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Quick Summary

Segment an input string into tokens using a provided dictionary of key-value pairs.
Apply a greedy strategy that always selects the longest matching prefix at each step.
Unmatched characters are preserved and emitted as individual literal tokens.

What This Tests

Trie construction and efficient prefix matching
Greedy algorithm design and state management
Linear pass string segmentation
Handling overlapping or nested dictionary keys

Common Patterns

Trie

Greedy

Accepted

4k/11.7k

Acceptance Rate33.8%

Test Cases

Input

text =

dictionary =

Output

Expected