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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 {Integer}
def longest_common_subsequence(text1, text2)
  n = text1.length
  m = text2.length
  dp = Array.new(n + 1) {Array.new(m + 1, 0)}

  (1..n).each do |i|
    (1..m).each do |j|
      if text1[i - 1] == text2[j - 1]
        dp[i][j] = dp[i - 1][j - 1] + 1
      else
        dp[i][j] = [dp[i - 1][j], dp[i][j - 1]].max
      end
    end
  end

  dp[n][m]
end