#K42427. Minimum Operations to Transform Strings
Minimum Operations to Transform Strings
Minimum Operations to Transform Strings
You are given two strings s1
and s2
. Your task is to compute the minimum number of operations required to transform s1
into s2
using the following allowed operations:
- Insertion
- Deletion
- Replacement
This is a classical edit distance problem. In mathematical terms, if we denote the edit distance by \(D(s_1, s_2)\), the recurrence relation is given by:
\[ D(i, j) = \begin{cases} j & \text{if } i = 0,\\ i & \text{if } j = 0,\\ D(i-1, j-1) & \text{if } s_1[i-1] = s_2[j-1],\\ 1 + \min\{ D(i-1, j),\, D(i, j-1),\, D(i-1, j-1) \} & \text{if } s_1[i-1] \neq s_2[j-1]. \end{cases} \]Your solution should read the input from stdin and output the result to stdout.
inputFormat
The input consists of two lines:
- The first line contains the string
s1
. - The second line contains the string
s2
.
Both strings can be empty.
outputFormat
Output a single integer representing the minimum number of operations required to transform s1
into s2
.
kitten
sitting
3