0072 - Edit Distance

0072 - Edit Distance

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

Examples

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

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.

Java Solution (Dynammic Programming)

class Solution {
  public int minDistance(String word1, String word2) {
    int n = word1.length();
    int m = word2.length();

    if (n * m == 0)
      return n + m;

    int[][] d = new int[n + 1][m + 1];

    for (int i = 0; i < n + 1; i++) {
      d[i][0] = i;
    }
    for (int j = 0; j < m + 1; j++) {
      d[0][j] = j;
    }

    for (int i = 1; i < n + 1; i++) {
      for (int j = 1; j < m + 1; j++) {
        int left = d[i - 1][j] + 1;
        int down = d[i][j - 1] + 1;
        int left_down = d[i - 1][j - 1];
        if (word1.charAt(i - 1) != word2.charAt(j - 1))
          left_down += 1;
        d[i][j] = Math.min(left, Math.min(down, left_down));

      }
    }
    return d[n][m];
  }
}