#458Medium#43 in Atlassian's list· asked at 24 companies
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Example 1
Input: word1 = "horse", word2 = "ros" Output: 3
horse -> rorse (replace h with r), rorse -> rose (remove r), rose -> ros (remove e).
Example 2
Input: word1 = "intention", word2 = "execution" Output: 5
Constraints
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0 <= word1.length, word2.length <= 500 - •
word1andword2consist of lowercase English letters.