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1638. Count Substrings That Differ by One Character

Description

Given two strings s and t, find the number of ways you can choose a non-empty substring of s and replace a single character by a different character such that the resulting substring is a substring of t. In other words, find the number of substrings in s that differ from some substring in t by exactly one character.

For example, the underlined substrings in "computer" and "computation" only differ by the 'e'/'a', so this is a valid way.

Return the number of substrings that satisfy the condition above.

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "aba", t = "baba"
Output: 6
Explanation: The following are the pairs of substrings from s and t that differ by exactly 1 character:
("aba", "baba")
("aba", "baba")
("aba", "baba")
("aba", "baba")
("aba", "baba")
("aba", "baba")
The underlined portions are the substrings that are chosen from s and t.

​​Example 2:

Input: s = "ab", t = "bb"
Output: 3
Explanation: The following are the pairs of substrings from s and t that differ by 1 character:
("ab", "bb")
("ab", "bb")
("ab", "bb")
​​​​The underlined portions are the substrings that are chosen from s and t.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length, t.length <= 100
  • s and t consist of lowercase English letters only.

Solutions

Solution 1

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class Solution:
    def countSubstrings(self, s: str, t: str) -> int:
        ans = 0
        m, n = len(s), len(t)
        for i, a in enumerate(s):
            for j, b in enumerate(t):
                if a != b:
                    l = r = 0
                    while i > l and j > l and s[i - l - 1] == t[j - l - 1]:
                        l += 1
                    while (
                        i + r + 1 < m and j + r + 1 < n and s[i + r + 1] == t[j + r + 1]
                    ):
                        r += 1
                    ans += (l + 1) * (r + 1)
        return ans

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class Solution {
    public int countSubstrings(String s, String t) {
        int ans = 0;
        int m = s.length(), n = t.length();
        for (int i = 0; i < m; ++i) {
            for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
                if (s.charAt(i) != t.charAt(j)) {
                    int l = 0, r = 0;
                    while (i - l > 0 && j - l > 0 && s.charAt(i - l - 1) == t.charAt(j - l - 1)) {
                        ++l;
                    }
                    while (i + r + 1 < m && j + r + 1 < n
                        && s.charAt(i + r + 1) == t.charAt(j + r + 1)) {
                        ++r;
                    }
                    ans += (l + 1) * (r + 1);
                }
            }
        }
        return ans;
    }
}

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class Solution {
public:
    int countSubstrings(string s, string t) {
        int ans = 0;
        int m = s.size(), n = t.size();
        for (int i = 0; i < m; ++i) {
            for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
                if (s[i] != t[j]) {
                    int l = 0, r = 0;
                    while (i - l > 0 && j - l > 0 && s[i - l - 1] == t[j - l - 1]) {
                        ++l;
                    }
                    while (i + r + 1 < m && j + r + 1 < n && s[i + r + 1] == t[j + r + 1]) {
                        ++r;
                    }
                    ans += (l + 1) * (r + 1);
                }
            }
        }
        return ans;
    }
};