Medium
Given two strings word1
and word2
, return the minimum number of steps required to make word1
and word2
the same.
In one step, you can delete exactly one character in either string.
Example 1:
Input: word1 = “sea”, word2 = “eat”
Output: 2
Explanation: You need one step to make “sea” to “ea” and another step to make “eat” to “ea”.
Example 2:
Input: word1 = “leetcode”, word2 = “etco”
Output: 4
Constraints:
1 <= word1.length, word2.length <= 500
word1
and word2
consist of only lowercase English letters.class Solution {
fun minDistance(word1: String, word2: String): Int {
val m = word1.length
val n = word2.length
val dp = Array(m + 1) { IntArray(n + 1) }
for (i in 1..m) {
for (j in 1..n) {
dp[i][j] = if (word1[i - 1] == word2[j - 1]) {
dp[i - 1][j - 1] + 1
} else {
Math.max(
dp[i - 1][j],
dp[i][j - 1],
)
}
}
}
return m + n - 2 * dp[m][n]
}
}