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1143. Longest Common Subsequence

Description

Given two strings text1 and text2, return the length of their longest common subsequence. If there is no common subsequence, return 0.

A subsequence of a string is a new string generated from the original string with some characters (can be none) deleted without changing the relative order of the remaining characters.

  • For example, "ace" is a subsequence of "abcde".

A common subsequence of two strings is a subsequence that is common to both strings.

 

Example 1:

Input: text1 = "abcde", text2 = "ace" 
Output: 3  
Explanation: The longest common subsequence is "ace" and its length is 3.

Example 2:

Input: text1 = "abc", text2 = "abc"
Output: 3
Explanation: The longest common subsequence is "abc" and its length is 3.

Example 3:

Input: text1 = "abc", text2 = "def"
Output: 0
Explanation: There is no such common subsequence, so the result is 0.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= text1.length, text2.length <= 1000
  • text1 and text2 consist of only lowercase English characters.

Solutions

Solution 1: Dynamic Programming

We define $f[i][j]$ as the length of the longest common subsequence of the first $i$ characters of $text1$ and the first $j$ characters of $text2$. Therefore, the answer is $f[m][n]$, where $m$ and $n$ are the lengths of $text1$ and $text2$, respectively.

If the $i$th character of $text1$ and the $j$th character of $text2$ are the same, then $f[i][j] = f[i - 1][j - 1] + 1$; if the $i$th character of $text1$ and the $j$th character of $text2$ are different, then $f[i][j] = max(f[i - 1][j], f[i][j - 1])$. The state transition equation is:

$$ f[i][j] = \begin{cases} f[i - 1][j - 1] + 1, & \textit{if } text1[i - 1] = text2[j - 1] \ \max(f[i - 1][j], f[i][j - 1]), & \textit{if } text1[i - 1] \neq text2[j - 1] \end{cases} $$

The time complexity is $O(m \times n)$, and the space complexity is $O(m \times n)$. Here, $m$ and $n$ are the lengths of $text1$ and $text2$, respectively.

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class Solution:
    def longestCommonSubsequence(self, text1: str, text2: str) -> int:
        m, n = len(text1), len(text2)
        f = [[0] * (n + 1) for _ in range(m + 1)]
        for i in range(1, m + 1):
            for j in range(1, n + 1):
                if text1[i - 1] == text2[j - 1]:
                    f[i][j] = f[i - 1][j - 1] + 1
                else:
                    f[i][j] = max(f[i - 1][j], f[i][j - 1])
        return f[m][n]

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class Solution {
    public int longestCommonSubsequence(String text1, String text2) {
        int m = text1.length(), n = text2.length();
        int[][] f = new int[m + 1][n + 1];
        for (int i = 1; i <= m; ++i) {
            for (int j = 1; j <= n; ++j) {
                if (text1.charAt(i - 1) == text2.charAt(j - 1)) {
                    f[i][j] = f[i - 1][j - 1] + 1;
                } else {
                    f[i][j] = Math.max(f[i - 1][j], f[i][j - 1]);
                }
            }
        }
        return f[m][n];
    }
}

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class Solution {
public:
    int longestCommonSubsequence(string text1, string text2) {
        int m = text1.size(), n = text2.size();
        int f[m + 1][n + 1];
        memset(f, 0, sizeof f);
        for (int i = 1; i <= m; ++i) {
            for (int j = 1; j <= n; ++j) {
                if (text1[i - 1] == text2[j - 1]) {
                    f[i][j] = f[i - 1][j - 1] + 1;
                } else {
                    f[i][j] = max(f[i - 1][j], f[i][j - 1]);
                }
            }
        }
        return f[m][n];
    }
};

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func longestCommonSubsequence(text1 string, text2 string) int {
    m, n := len(text1), len(text2)
    f := make([][]int,