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62 lines
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layout: page
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title: Longest Common Subsequence
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---
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```
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Input: text1 = "abcde", text2 = "ace"
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Output: 3
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Explanation: The longest common subsequence is "ace" and its length is
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```
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Gotchas
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-------
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- look out for the dimension with which you build the grid (ie: m<->i, n<->j)
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- table=[[0]*(n+1) for x in range(m+1)]
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- otherwise you could run into a array out of bounds error
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{% highlight python %}
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str1 = "AAB"
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str2 = "AZB"
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def lcs(text1, text2):
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n= len(text1)
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m= len(text2)
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# creates an [m+1][n+1] matrix, filled with zeros
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table=[[0]*(n+1) for x in range(m+1)]
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for i in range(1, m+1):
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for j in range (1, n+1):
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# first char is the same, so add 1 to count
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if text2[i-1]==text1[j-1]:
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table[i][j]= 1+table[i-1][j-1]
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# first char is different, so break into subproblems and take the max
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else:
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table[i][j]=max(table[i-1][j],table[i][j-1])
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print [0]*(n+1)
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print range(m+1)
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print table
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print max(table) # this get the last element at the end of the list
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return max(max(table)) # this gets the last element at the bottom right corner (last element of both lists)
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print lcs(str1, str2)
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{% endhighlight %}
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