Edit Distance

Problem

Find minimum single-character insertions, deletions and substitutions to transform one string into another.

Examples

Example 1

Input: {"a":"horse","b":"ros"}

Output: 3

Example 2

Input: {"a":"","b":"abc"}

Output: 3

Input and output use JSON-compatible values. For linked-list and tree questions, arrays represent the node structure as described above. Your code should implement solve(input).

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Compiler

How to solve Edit Distance

Find minimum single-character insertions, deletions and substitutions to transform one string into another. Compare the costs of insert, delete and replace. The reference implementation illustrates this approach; check the example and edge cases.

Time and space complexity

O(nm) time and O(m) space.

Practise and improve

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