517. Count Pairs of Equal Substrings with Minimum Difference
Given two strings firstString and secondString that are 0-indexed and consist only of lowercase English letters. Count the number of index quadruples (i, j, a, b) that satisfy the following conditions:
- 0 <= i <= j < firstString.length
- 0 <= a <= b < secondString.length
- The substring of firstString that starts at the ith character and ends at the jth character (inclusive) is equal to the substring of secondString that starts at the ath character and ends at the bth character (inclusive).
- j - a is the minimum possible value among all quadruples that satisfy the previous conditions.
Return the number of such quadruples.
Example 1:
Input : firstString = "abcd", secondString = "bccda"
Output : 1
Explanation :
The quadruple (0,0,4,4) is the only one that satisfies all the conditions and minimizes j - a.
Example 2:
Input : firstString = "ab", secondString = "cd"
Output : 0
Explanation :
There are no quadruples satisfying all the conditions.
Now Your Turn!
Pick the correct output for the given inputInput : firstString = "ababa", secondString = "baba"
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Constraints:
- 1 <= firstString.length, secondString.length <= 2*105
- Both strings consist only of lowercase English letters.