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1143. Longest Common Subsequence

Medium

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.

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:

Solution

/**
 * @param {string} text1
 * @param {string} text2
 * @return {number}
 */
var longestCommonSubsequence = function(text1, text2) {
    const rows = text1.length
    const columns = text2.length
    let prevRow = new Array(text2.length + 1).fill(0)

    for (let i = rows - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        const curRow = new Array(text2.length + 1).fill(0)
        for (let j = columns - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
            if (text1[i] == text2[j]) {
                curRow[j] = 1 + prevRow[j + 1]
            } else {
                curRow[j] = Math.max(prevRow[j], curRow[j + 1])
            }
        }
        prevRow = curRow
    }

    return prevRow[0]
};

export { longestCommonSubsequence }