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"""

https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/abbr/problem

You can perform the following operation on some string, :

1. Capitalize zero or more of 's lowercase letters at some index i

(i.e., make them uppercase).

2. Delete all of the remaining lowercase letters in .

Example:

a=daBcd and b="ABC"

daBcd -> capitalize a and c(dABCd) -> remove d (ABC)

"""

def abbr(a: str, b: str) -> bool:

"""

>>> abbr("daBcd", "ABC")

True

>>> abbr("dBcd", "ABC")

False

"""

n = len(a)

m = len(b)

dp = [[False for _ in range(m + 1)] for _ in range(n + 1)]

dp[0][0] = True

for i in range(n):

for j in range(m + 1):

if dp[i][j]:

if j < m and a[i].upper() == b[j]:

dp[i + 1][j + 1] = True

if a[i].islower():

dp[i + 1][j] = True

return dp[n][m]

if __name__ == "__main__":

import doctest

doctest.testmod()

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