Problem
Given an array of strings wordsDict
and two strings that already exist in the array word1
and word2
, return the shortest distance between the occurrence of these two words in the list.
Note that word1
and word2
may be the same. It is guaranteed that they represent two individual words in the list.
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Example 1:
Input: wordsDict = ["practice", "makes", "perfect", "coding", "makes"], word1 = "makes", word2 = "coding" Output: 1
Example 2:
Input: wordsDict = ["practice", "makes", "perfect", "coding", "makes"], word1 = "makes", word2 = "makes" Output: 3
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Constraints:
1 <= wordsDict.length <= 105
1 <= wordsDict[i].length <= 10
wordsDict[i]
consists of lowercase English letters.word1
andword2
are inwordsDict
.