#C8549. Minimum Replacements Transformation
Minimum Replacements Transformation
Minimum Replacements Transformation
You are given two strings, S and T. In one operation, you can replace any character in S with any other character. The goal is to transform S into T with the minimum number of such replacement operations. Note that the order of characters does not matter; only their frequency matters.
Formally, let \(freq_X(c)\) denote the frequency of character \(c\) in string \(X\). The answer is given by: \[ \sum_{c} \max(0, freq_T(c) - freq_S(c)) \] where the sum is taken over all characters that appear in T.
For example:
- For S = "abc" and T = "bca", no replacements are needed.
- For S = "a" and T = "b", one replacement is needed.
- For S = "abc" and T = "xyz", three replacements are needed.
inputFormat
The input is read from standard input (stdin) and has the following format:
T S₁ T₁ S₂ T₂ ... (repeated for T test cases)
where T is the number of test cases. For each test case, the first line contains string S and the second line contains string T.
outputFormat
For each test case, print the minimum number of replacements required to transform string S into string T on a separate line. The output should be written to standard output (stdout).
## sample3
abc
bca
a
b
abc
xyz
0
1
3
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