Given two words word1 and word2, find the minimum number of steps required to convert word1 to word2. (each operation is counted as 1 step.)
You have the following 3 operations permitted on a word:
a) Insert a character
b) Delete a character
c) Replace a character
题目大意:给出两个字符串word1和word2,问最少经过几次插入、删除和替换后可以把word1转化成word2。
解题思路:编辑距离问题,采用动态规划求解。令dis[i, j]为word1前i个字符组成的字串转化成word2前j个字符组成的字串所需要的操作数,显然,dis[0, 0] = 0,dis[i, 0] = i(1 <= i <= len(word1)),dis[0, j] = j(1 <= j <= len(word2))。当i != j时,有以下状态转移方程:
(1)当word1[i - 1] == word2[j - 1]时, dis[i, j] = d[i - 1, j - 1]
(2)当word1[i - 1] != word2[j - 1]时,dis[i, j] = min(dis[i - 1, j], dis[i, j - 1], dis[i - 1, j - 1]) + 1
最后,dis[len(word1), len(word2)]即为所求结果。
代码如下:
#define MIN(X, Y) ((X) < (Y) ? (X) : (Y))
int minDistance(char* word1, char* word2) {
int lenWord1 = strlen(word1);
int lenWord2 = strlen(word2);
int** dis = malloc(sizeof(int*) * (lenWord1+1));
for(int i = 0;i <= lenWord1;i++) dis[i] = malloc(sizeof(int) * (lenWord2 + 1));
for(int i = 0;i <= lenWord1;i++) dis[i][0] = i;
for(int j = 1;j <= lenWord2;j++) dis[0][j] = j;
for(int i = 1;i <= lenWord1;i++){
for(int j = 1;j <= lenWord2;j++){
dis[i][j] = MIN(MIN(dis[i - 1][j], dis[i][j - 1]) + 1, dis[i - 1][j - 1] + !(word1[i - 1] == word2[j - 1])) ;
}
}
int ans = dis[lenWord1][lenWord2];
for(int i = 0;i <= lenWord1;i++) free(dis[i]);
free(dis);
return ans;
}