Given two strings S and T, determine if they are both one edit distance apart.


分析:one edit distance,要么S,T长度同样, 仅仅有一对不同char,那么仅仅要跳过这对不同的char,应该能匹配完两个String的;

                                               要么S。T长度相差一。其它部分都匹配,则仅仅要跳过长度长的那个String的不匹配字符继续匹配,假设能够匹配完两个String,则返回true

时间复杂度: 仅仅需一遍扫描, O(n)

public class Solution {
    public boolean isOneEditDistance(String s, String t) {
        // make s to be the shorter String
        if(s.length() > t.length()){
            return isOneEditDistance(t, s);
        }
        
        if(t.length() - s.length() > 1){
            return false;
        }        
        int shift = t.length() - s.length();
        int i = 0;
        while(i < s.length() && s.charAt(i) == t.charAt(i)){
            i++;
        }
        if(shift == 0){
            i++;
            while(i < s.length() && s.charAt(i) == t.charAt(i)){
                i++;
            }
            return i == s.length();
        }else{
            if(i == s.length()){
                return true;
            }else{
                while(i < s.length() && s.charAt(i) == t.charAt(i + 1)){
                    i++;
                }
                return i == s.length();
            }
        }
    }
}



又观察了一下,事实上shift == 1 的情况下没有必要单独讨论 if(i == s.length())。能够整合到以下的推断中, 改进例如以下

public class Solution {
    public boolean isOneEditDistance(String s, String t) {
        // make s to be the shorter String
        if(s.length() > t.length()){
            return isOneEditDistance(t, s);
        }
        
        if(t.length() - s.length() > 1){
            return false;
        }        
        int shift = t.length() - s.length();
        int i = 0;
        while(i < s.length() && s.charAt(i) == t.charAt(i)){
            i++;
        }
        if(shift == 0){
            i++;
            while(i < s.length() && s.charAt(i) == t.charAt(i)){
                i++;
            }
            return i == s.length();
        }else{
            while(i < s.length() && s.charAt(i) == t.charAt(i + 1)){
                i++;
            }
            return i == s.length();
        }
    }
}