#K53747. Edit Distance Transformation
Edit Distance Transformation
Edit Distance Transformation
You are given two strings A and B. Your task is to compute the minimum number of operations required to transform string A into string B. The permitted operations are insertion, deletion, and substitution.
This classical problem can be solved using dynamic programming. One common recurrence is given by:
$$dp[i][j] = \min\begin{cases} dp[i-1][j] + 1,\\ dp[i][j-1] + 1,\\ dp[i-1][j-1] + \mathbf{1}_{(A[i-1] \neq B[j-1])} \end{cases}$$
where $$\mathbf{1}_{(A[i-1] \neq B[j-1])}$$ equals 0 if the characters are equal, and 1 otherwise.
Please read input from standard input and write the answer to standard output.
inputFormat
The first line contains an integer T
, the number of test cases. For each test case, the next two lines contain the strings A and B respectively. Note that strings may be empty.
outputFormat
For each test case, output a single line containing the minimum number of operations required to transform string A into string B.## sample
3
horse
ros
intention
execution
abc
abc
3
5
0
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