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LeetCode 3045, Hard. Topics: Array, String, Trie, Rolling Hash, String Matching, Hash Function, Z Algorithm. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 18 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

You are given a 0-indexed string array words. Let’s define a boolean function isPrefixAndSuffix that takes two strings, str1 and str2:
  • isPrefixAndSuffix(str1, str2) returns true if str1 is both a prefix and a suffix of str2, and false otherwise.
For example, isPrefixAndSuffix(“aba”, “ababa”) is true because “aba” is a prefix of “ababa” and also a suffix, but isPrefixAndSuffix(“abc”, “abcd”) is false. Return an integer denoting the number of index pairs (i, j) such that i < j, and isPrefixAndSuffix(words[i], words[j]) is true.

Examples

Explanation: The counted index pairs are (0, 1), (0, 2), (0, 3) and (1, 2).
Explanation: The counted index pairs are (0, 1) and (2, 3).

Constraints

  • 1 <= words.length <= 10^5
  • 1 <= words[i].length <= 10^5
  • words[i] consists only of lowercase English letters.
  • The sum of the lengths of all words[i] does not exceed 5 * 10^5.

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

Complexity

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Last modified on September 7, 2026