- Difficulty: Hard
- Tags: LeetCode, Hard, String, Dynamic Programming, leetcode-1092, O(m * n)
Problem
Given two strings str1
and str2
, return the shortest string that has both str1
and str2
as subsequences. If there are multiple valid strings, return any of them.
A string s
is a subsequence of string t
if deleting some number of characters from t
(possibly 0
) results in the string s
.
Example 1:
Input: str1 = "abac", str2 = "cab" Output: "cabac" Explanation: str1 = "abac" is a subsequence of "cabac" because we can delete the first "c". str2 = "cab" is a subsequence of "cabac" because we can delete the last "ac". The answer provided is the shortest such string that satisfies these properties.
Example 2:
Input: str1 = "aaaaaaaa", str2 = "aaaaaaaa" Output: "aaaaaaaa"
Constraints:
1 <= str1.length, str2.length <= 1000
str1
andstr2
consist of lowercase English letters.