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

给定两个字符串,求出将字符串1变为字符串2的最小操作步骤。

操作分三种:a)插入一个字符

      b)删除一个字符

      c)替换一个字符

 

这是一个很好的度量字符串之间相似程度的一个方式。

很明显是需要利用动态规划来求解的,做了很久终于做出来了。

 

即  pos[i][j] =  min( pos[i - 1][j] + 1, pos[i][j - 1] + 1 ,pos[i - 1][j - 1] + word1.charAt(i) == word2.charAt(j)) 

 

public class Solution {
    
    public int minDistance(String word1, String word2) {
        int len1 = word1.length();
        int len2 = word2.length();
        int[][] pos = new int[len1+1][len2+1];
        for (int i = 0; i <= len2; i++) 
            pos[0][i] = i ;
        for (int i = 0; i <= len1; i++) 
            pos[i][0] = i ;
        for (int i = 1; i <= len1 ; i++) {
            for (int j = 1; j<= len2 ; j++) {
                if( word1.charAt(i-1) == word2.charAt(j-1))
                    pos[i][j] = Math.min(Math.min(pos[i - 1][j] + 1, pos[i][j - 1] + 1),pos[i - 1][j - 1]); 
                else
                    pos[i][j] = Math.min(Math.min(pos[i - 1][j] + 1, pos[i][j - 1] + 1),pos[i - 1][j - 1]+1); 
            }
        }
        return pos[len1][len2];
    }
}

其实还可以优化,优化成dp[len1]这样的结果,没有接着往下做,但是确实是可以接着做的。时间应该会更快。