Alien Dictionary || Gfg Problem of the day
class Solution{
public:
string findOrder(string dict[], int n, int K) {
// topo sort bfs
vector<int> adj[K], indeg(K);
for(int i=0;i<n-1;i++) {
string s1=dict[i];
string s2=dict[i+1];
int len=min(s1.length(),s2.length());
for(int j=0;j<len; j++) {
if(s1[j] != s2[j]) {
adj[s1[j] - 'a'].push_back(s2[j] - 'a');
indeg[s2[j] - 'a']++;
break;
}
}
}
queue<int> q;
for(int i=0;i<K;i++) {
if(indeg[i] == 0) q.push(i);
}
string ans;
while(q.size()) {
int node = q.front();
q.pop();
ans.push_back(char(node + 'a'));
for(int i : adj[node]) {
indeg[i]--;
if(indeg[i] == 0) q.push(i);
}
}
return ans;
}
};
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