I need to design a data structure to which I can efficiently add new words(Strings) and search for an existing word. Also, the search word can contain .
in it which can match any character. For eg. if I add strings "abcd" and "abed" then search for "ab.d" should return me both of them.
I tried to tackle this using prefix Tries. It works fine for normal string search(without dot) but for dot I have to search for every child of a node. Is there a more efficient way of solving this problem?