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
1 典型的DP算法 A[1,n],B[1,n] 三种情况:1.1 一步操作,A[2,n]==B[1,n] 1.2 一步操作 A[1,n] ==B[2,n] 1.3 A[2,n]==B[2,n]
2 用DP+二维表可以节省时间
3 具体思路 参考 《编程之美》3.3
4 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeAlgDS/Dynamic/Edit/里面有说到这个算法的应用:文件比对和传输,远程屏幕更新,拼写纠正,抄袭检测。
public class Solution {
public int minDistance(String word1, String word2) {
int m = word1.length();
int n = word2.length();
if(n<1){
return m;
}
if(m<1){
return n;
}
int[][] record = new int[m+1][n+1];
for(int i=0;i<=m;i++){
record[i][0]=i;
}
for(int j=0;j<=n;j++){
record[0][j]=j;
}
for(int i=1;i<=m;i++){
for(int j=1;j<=n;j++){
record[i][j]= min3(record,i,j,word1,word2);
}
}
return record[m][n];
}
public int min3(int[][] record,int i,int j,String word1,String word2){
if(word1.charAt(i-1)==word2.charAt(j-1)){
return record[i-1][j-1];
}
return Math.min(Math.min(record[i-1][j],record[i][j-1]),record[i-1][j-1])+1;
}
}