#K34527. Min Operations to Make the String Beautiful
Min Operations to Make the String Beautiful
Min Operations to Make the String Beautiful
You are given a string \( s \) of length \( n \) and \( m \) special substrings. A string is considered beautiful if every one of the special substrings appears in \( s \) as a contiguous subsequence. Your task is to determine the minimum number of operations needed to make \( s \) beautiful. In one operation, you may perform modifications on \( s \). However, in this problem, you are not allowed to modify \( s \). Therefore, if every special substring is already present in \( s \), the answer is 0; otherwise, it is impossible and you should output -1.
Note: Although the problem statement mentions operations, the only valid answers are 0 (if \( s \) is already beautiful) or -1 (if it is impossible to achieve beauty with the allowed operations).
Formally, given a string \( s \) and a list of special substrings \( \{t_1, t_2, \dots, t_m\} \), output 0 if for every \( i \) (\(1 \le i \le m\)), \( t_i \) is a substring of \( s \), and -1 otherwise.
inputFormat
The input is given as follows:
- The first line contains two integers \( n \) and \( m \) separated by a space, where \( n \) is the length of the string \( s \) and \( m \) is the number of special substrings.
- The second line contains the string \( s \) consisting of \( n \) lowercase English letters.
- The following \( m \) lines each contain a non-empty string representing a special substring.
If \( m = 0 \), then there are no special substrings.
outputFormat
Output a single integer:
- Output
0
if every special substring is found in \( s \). - Otherwise, output
-1
if at least one special substring does not appear in \( s \).
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