LeetCode 161, Medium. Topics: Two Pointers, String. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 25 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
Given two strings s and t, return true if they are both one edit distance apart, otherwise return false.
A string s is said to be one distance apart from a string t if you can:
- Insert exactly one character into
s to get t.
- Delete exactly one character from
s to get t.
- Replace exactly one character of
s to get t.
Examples
Constraints
- 0 <= s.length, t.length <= 10^4
- s and t consist of lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and digits
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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