Problem:
Edit Distance (Levenshtein Distance)

Find the edit distance between given two words s1 and s2.

The disntace is the minimum number of single-character edits required to change one word into the other. The edits including the following operations:

insertion: Insert a character at a particular position.

deletion: Delete a character at a particular position.

substitution: Change the character at a particular position to a different character

Input

s1
s2

Two words s1 and s2 are given in the first line and the second line respectively. The words will consist of lower case characters.

Output

Print the edit distance in a line.

Constraints

1 ≤ length of s1 ≤ 1000

1 ≤ length of s2 ≤ 1000

Sample Input 1

acac
acm

Sample Output 1

2

Sample Input 2

icpc
icpc

Sample Output 2

0

Solution in JAVA (judge verdict: Accepted)


import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.InputMismatchException;
public class Main {
	static InputStream is;
	static PrintWriter out;
	static String INPUT = "";
	private static void solve() {
		String s1 = ns();
		String s2 = ns();
		int[][] dp = new int[s1.length()+1][s2.length()+1];
		for(int i=1;i<=s1.length();i++){
			dp[i][0] = i;
		}
		for(int i=1;i<=s2.length();i++){
			dp[0][i] = i;
		}
		for(int i=1;i<=s1.length();i++){
			for(int j=1;j<=s2.length();j++){
				if(s1.charAt(i-1)==s2.charAt(j-1)){
					dp[i][j] = Math.min(dp[i-1][j]+1, dp[i][j-1]+1);
					dp[i][j] = Math.min(dp[i][j], dp[i-1][j-1]);
				}else{
					dp[i][j] = Math.min(dp[i-1][j]+1, dp[i][j-1]+1);
					dp[i][j] = Math.min(dp[i][j], dp[i-1][j-1]+1);
				}
			}
		}
		System.out.println(dp[s1.length()][s2.length()]);
	}
	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
	{
		long S = System.currentTimeMillis();
		is = INPUT.isEmpty() ? System.in : new ByteArrayInputStream(INPUT.getBytes());
		out = new PrintWriter(System.out);

		solve();
		out.flush();
		long G = System.currentTimeMillis();
		tr(G-S+"ms");
	}

	private static boolean eof()
	{
		if(lenbuf == -1)return true;
		int lptr = ptrbuf;
		while(lptr < lenbuf)if(!isSpaceChar(inbuf[lptr++]))return false;

		try {
			is.mark(1000);
			while(true){
				int b = is.read();
				if(b == -1){
					is.reset();
					return true;
				}else if(!isSpaceChar(b)){
					is.reset();
					return false;
				}
			}
		} catch (IOException e) {
			return true;
		}
	}

	private static byte[] inbuf = new byte[1024];
	static int lenbuf = 0, ptrbuf = 0;

	private static int readByte()
	{
		if(lenbuf == -1)throw new InputMismatchException();
		if(ptrbuf >= lenbuf){
			ptrbuf = 0;
			try { lenbuf = is.read(inbuf); } catch (IOException e) { throw new InputMismatchException(); }
			if(lenbuf <= 0)return -1;
		}
		return inbuf[ptrbuf++];
	}

	private static boolean isSpaceChar(int c) { return !(c >= 33 && c <= 126); }
	//	private static boolean isSpaceChar(int c) { return !(c >= 32 && c <= 126); }
	private static int skip() { int b; while((b = readByte()) != -1 && isSpaceChar(b)); return b; }

	private static double nd() { return Double.parseDouble(ns()); }
	private static char nc() { return (char)skip(); }

	private static String ns()
	{
		int b = skip();
		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
		while(!(isSpaceChar(b))){
			sb.appendCodePoint(b);
			b = readByte();
		}
		return sb.toString();
	}

	private static char[] ns(int n)
	{
		char[] buf = new char[n];
		int b = skip(), p = 0;
		while(p < n && !(isSpaceChar(b))){
			buf[p++] = (char)b;
			b = readByte();
		}
		return n == p ? buf : Arrays.copyOf(buf, p);
	}

	private static char[][] nm(int n, int m)
	{
		char[][] map = new char[n][];
		for(int i = 0;i < n;i++)map[i] = ns(m);
		return map;
	}

	private static int[] na(int n)
	{
		int[] a = new int[n];
		for(int i = 0;i < n;i++)a[i] = ni();
		return a;
	}

	private static int ni()
	{
		int num = 0, b;
		boolean minus = false;
		while((b = readByte()) != -1 && !((b >= '0' && b <= '9') || b == '-'));
		if(b == '-'){
			minus = true;
			b = readByte();
		}

		while(true){
			if(b >= '0' && b <= '9'){
				num = num * 10 + (b - '0');
			}else{
				return minus ? -num : num;
			}
			b = readByte();
		}
	}

	private static long nl()
	{
		long num = 0;
		int b;
		boolean minus = false;
		while((b = readByte()) != -1 && !((b >= '0' && b <= '9') || b == '-'));
		if(b == '-'){
			minus = true;
			b = readByte();
		}

		while(true){
			if(b >= '0' && b <= '9'){
				num = num * 10 + (b - '0');
			}else{
				return minus ? -num : num;
			}
			b = readByte();
		}
	}

	private static void tr(Object... o) { if(INPUT.length() != 0)System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(o)); }
}