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72. Edit Distance

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Description

Given two strings word1 and word2, return the minimum number of operations required to convert word1 to word2.

You have the following three operations permitted on a word:

• Insert a character
• Delete a character
• Replace a character

 

Example 1:

Input: word1 = "horse", word2 = "ros"
Output: 3
Explanation: 
horse -> rorse (replace 'h' with 'r')
rorse -> rose (remove 'r')
rose -> ros (remove 'e')

Example 2:

Input: word1 = "intention", word2 = "execution"
Output: 5
Explanation: 
intention -> inention (remove 't')
inention -> enention (replace 'i' with 'e')
enention -> exention (replace 'n' with 'x')
exention -> exection (replace 'n' with 'c')
exection -> execution (insert 'u')

 

Constraints:

• 0 <= word1.length, word2.length <= 500
• word1 and word2 consist of lowercase English letters.

Solutions

Dynamic programming.

Python3

class Solution:
    def minDistance(self, word1: str, word2: str) -> int:
        m, n = len(word1), len(word2)
        dp = [[0] * (n + 1) for _ in range(m + 1)]
        for i in range(m + 1):
            dp[i][0] = i
        for j in range(n + 1):
            dp[0][j] = j
        for i in range(1, m + 1):
            for j in range(1, n + 1):
                if word1[i - 1] == word2[j - 1]:
                    dp[i][j] = dp[i - 1][j - 1]
                else:
                    dp[i][j] = min(dp[i][j - 1], dp[i - 1][j], dp[i - 1][j - 1]) + 1
        return dp[-1][-1]

Java

class Solution {
    public int minDistance(String word1, String word2) {
        int m = word1.length(), n = word2.length();
        int[][] dp = new int[m + 1][n + 1];
        for (int i = 0; i <= m; ++i) {
            dp[i][0] = i;
        }
        for (int j = 0; j <= n; ++j) {
            dp[0][j] = j;
        }
        for (int i = 1; i <= m; ++i) {
            for (int j = 1; j <= n; ++j) {
                if (word1.charAt(i - 1) == word2.charAt(j - 1)) {
                    dp[i][j] = dp[i - 1][j - 1];
                } else {
                    dp[i][j] = Math.min(Math.min(dp[i][j - 1], dp[i - 1][j]), dp[i - 1][j - 1]) + 1;
                }
            }
        }
        return dp[m][n];
    }
}

C++

class Solution {
public:
    int minDistance(string word1, string word2) {
        int m = word1.size(), n = word2.size();
        vector<vector<int>> dp(m + 1, vector<int>(n + 1));
        for (int i = 0; i <= m; ++i) {
            dp[i][0] = i;
        }
        for (int j = 0; j <= n; ++j) {
            dp[0][j] = j;
        }
        for (int i = 1; i <= m; ++i) {
            for (int j = 1; j <= n; ++j) {
                if (word1[i - 1] == word2[j - 1]) {
                    dp[i][j] = dp[i - 1][j - 1];
                } else {
                    dp[i][j] = min(min(dp[i - 1][j], dp[i][j - 1]), dp[i - 1][j - 1]) + 1;
                }
            }
        }
        return dp[m][n];
    }
};

Go

func minDistance(word1 string, word2 string) int {
	m, n := len(word1), len(word2)
	dp := make([][]int, m+1)
	for i := 0; i <= m; i++ {
		dp[i] = make([]int, n+1)
		dp[i][0] = i
	}
	for j := 0; j <= n; j++ {
		dp[0][j] = j
	}
	for i := 1; i <= m; i++ {
		for j := 1; j <= n; j++ {
			if word1[i-1] == word2[j-1] {
				dp[i][j] = dp[i-1][j-1]
			} else {
				dp[i][j] = min(min(dp[i-1][j], dp[i][j-1]), dp[i-1][j-1]) + 1
			}
		}
	}
	return dp[m][n]
}

func min(a, b int) int {
	if a < b {
		return a
	}
	return b
}

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