<p>Given a string <code>s</code> and an array of strings <code>words</code>, return <em>the number of</em> <code>words[i]</code> <em>that is a subsequence of</em> <code>s</code>.</p>

<p>A <strong>subsequence</strong> of a string is a new string generated from the original string with some characters (can be none) deleted without changing the relative order of the remaining characters.</p>

<ul>
	<li>For example, <code>&quot;ace&quot;</code> is a subsequence of <code>&quot;abcde&quot;</code>.</li>
</ul>

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<p><strong class="example">Example 1:</strong></p>

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<strong>Input:</strong> s = &quot;abcde&quot;, words = [&quot;a&quot;,&quot;bb&quot;,&quot;acd&quot;,&quot;ace&quot;]
<strong>Output:</strong> 3
<strong>Explanation:</strong> There are three strings in words that are a subsequence of s: &quot;a&quot;, &quot;acd&quot;, &quot;ace&quot;.
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<p><strong class="example">Example 2:</strong></p>

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<strong>Input:</strong> s = &quot;dsahjpjauf&quot;, words = [&quot;ahjpjau&quot;,&quot;ja&quot;,&quot;ahbwzgqnuk&quot;,&quot;tnmlanowax&quot;]
<strong>Output:</strong> 2
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<p><strong>Constraints:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li><code>1 &lt;= s.length &lt;= 5 * 10<sup>4</sup></code></li>
	<li><code>1 &lt;= words.length &lt;= 5000</code></li>
	<li><code>1 &lt;= words[i].length &lt;= 50</code></li>
	<li><code>s</code> and <code>words[i]</code> consist of only lowercase English letters.</li>
</ul>

class Solution:
    def numMatchingSubseq(self, s: str, words: List[str]) -> int:
        alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
        # looking_for{c}{word} = progress on the i'th word
        looking_for = {c:{} for c in alphabet}
        for i in range(len(words)):
            c = words[i][0]
            looking_for[c][i] = 0
        
        completed = []
        for c in s:
            tmp = looking_for[c]
            looking_for[c] = {}
            for word_i,ind in tmp.items():
                if ind+1 == len(words[word_i]):
                    completed.append(i)
                else:
                    cc = words[word_i][ind+1]
                    looking_for[cc][word_i] = ind+1

        return len(completed)

        

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