#K48072. Minimum Operations to Transform Strings
Minimum Operations to Transform Strings
Minimum Operations to Transform Strings
You are given two strings s and t of equal length n. In one operation, you can change a single character in s to any other character. Your task is to determine the minimum number of operations required to transform s into t.
This is equivalent to counting the number of positions where the two strings differ. Formally, if we denote the answer as \( d \), then
[ d = \sum_{i=1}^{n} \mathbf{1}{s_i \neq t_i}, ]
where ( \mathbf{1}{s_i \neq t_i} ) is the indicator function that is 1 if ( s_i \neq t_i ) and 0 otherwise.
Note: The input will be provided via standard input (stdin) and the output should be printed to standard output (stdout).
inputFormat
The input consists of three lines:
- An integer
n
representing the length of the strings. - A string
s
— the initial string. - A string
t
— the target string.
It is guaranteed that the length of s
and t
is exactly n
.
outputFormat
Output a single integer: the minimum number of operations required to transform s
into t
.
5
abcde
bcdea
5
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