Practice Long Pressed Name
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Problem Statement
Your friend is typing his name into a keyboard. Sometimes, when typing a character c, the key might get long pressed, and the character will be typed 1 or more times. You examine the typed characters of the keyboard. Return True if it is possible that it was your friends name, with some characters (possibly none) being long pressed.
Source: Long Pressed Name on LeetCode. Use the original task for its coding environment and submissions.
Examples
# Example 1
Input
name = "alex", typed = "aaleex"
Output
true
# Example 2
Input
name = "saeed", typed = "ssaaedd"
Output
false
Constraints
1 <= name.length, typed.length <= 1000
name and typed consist of only lowercase English letters.
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