1233. Remove Sub-Folders from the Filesystem

Given a list of folders, remove all sub-folders in those folders and return in any order the folders after removing.

If a folder[i] is located within another folder[j], it is called a sub-folder of it.

The format of a path is one or more concatenated strings of the form: / followed by one or more lowercase English letters. For example, /leetcode and /leetcode/problems are valid paths while an empty string and / are not.

 

Example 1:

Input: folder = ["/a","/a/b","/c/d","/c/d/e","/c/f"]
Output: ["/a","/c/d","/c/f"]
Explanation: Folders "/a/b/" is a subfolder of "/a" and "/c/d/e" is inside of folder "/c/d" in our filesystem.

Example 2:

Input: folder = ["/a","/a/b/c","/a/b/d"]
Output: ["/a"]
Explanation: Folders "/a/b/c" and "/a/b/d/" will be removed because they are subfolders of "/a".

Example 3:

Input: folder = ["/a/b/c","/a/b/ca","/a/b/d"]
Output: ["/a/b/c","/a/b/ca","/a/b/d"]

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= folder.length <= 4 * 10^4
• 2 <= folder[i].length <= 100
• folder[i] contains only lowercase letters and '/'
• folder[i] always starts with character '/'
• Each folder name is unique.

class Solution(object):
    def removeSubfolders(self, folder):
        """
        :type folder: List[str]
        :rtype: List[str]
        """
        folder.sort(key=len)
        res = set()
        def helper(f):
            fs = f.strip().split('/')
            ss = fs[0]
            if ss in res: return True
            for s in fs[1:]:
                ss+='/'+s
                if ss in res: return True
            return False
        
        for f in folder:
            if not helper(f):
                res.add(f)
        return list(res)