- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, String, Dynamic Programming, leetcode-583, O(m * n), O(n)
Problem
Given two strings word1
and word2
, return the minimum number of steps required to make word1
and word2
the same.
In one step, you can delete exactly one character in either string.
Example 1:
Input: word1 = "sea", word2 = "eat" Output: 2 Explanation: You need one step to make "sea" to "ea" and another step to make "eat" to "ea".
Example 2:
Input: word1 = "leetcode", word2 = "etco" Output: 4
Constraints:
1 <= word1.length, word2.length <= 500
word1
andword2
consist of only lowercase English letters.