Given two strings text1 and text2, return the length of their longest common subsequence.
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. (eg, "ace" is a subsequence of "abcde" while "aec" is not). A common subsequence of two strings is a subsequence that is common to both strings.
If there is no common subsequence, return 0.
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:
1 <= text1.length <= 10001 <= text2.length <= 1000- The input strings consist of lowercase English characters only.
这道题让求最长相同的子序列，注意是子序列，不是子串，所以字符并不需要相连，但是字符顺序还是需要保持的。LeetCode 之前也有题目需要借助求 LCS 来解题，比如 Delete Operation for Two Strings，当时博主还疑惑怎么 LeetCode 中没有专门求 LCS 的题呢，这不，终于补上了。解题思路和上面那道是一模一样，若搞懂了那道题，这道也就是没什么难度了，这里是用动态规划 Dynamic Programing 来做，使用一个二维数组 dp，其中 dp[i][j] 表示 text1 的前i个字符和 text2 的前j个字符的最长相同的子序列的字符个数，这里大小初始化为 (m+1)x(n+1)，这里的m和n分别是 text1 和 text2 的长度。接下来就要找状态转移方程了，如何来更新 dp[i][j]，若二者对应位置的字符相同，表示当前的 LCS 又增加了一位，所以可以用 dp[i-1][j-1] + 1 来更新 dp[i][j]。否则若对应位置的字符不相同，由于是子序列，还可以错位比较，可以分别从 text1 或者 text2 去掉一个当前字符，那么其 dp 值就是 dp[i-1][j] 和 dp[i][j-1]，取二者中的较大值来更新 dp[i][j] 即可，最终的结果保存在了 dp[m][n] 中，参见代码如下：
class Solution {
public:
int longestCommonSubsequence(string text1, string text2) {
int m = text1.size(), n = text2.size();
vector<vector<int>> dp(m + 1, vector<int>(n + 1));
for (int i = 1; i <= m; ++i) {
for (int j = 1; j <= n; ++j) {
if (text1[i - 1] == text2[j - 1]) {
dp[i][j] = dp[i - 1][j - 1] + 1;
} else {
dp[i][j] = max(dp[i - 1][j], dp[i][j - 1]);
}
}
}
return dp[m][n];
}
};
讨论：这道题跟之前那道 Longest Palindromic Subsequence 的解题思路几乎是一模一样，你品，你细品，一定要通过现象看本质，才能举一反三，触类旁通。
Github 同步地址:
https://github.com/grandyang/leetcode/issues/1143
类似题目：
Longest Palindromic Subsequence
Delete Operation for Two Strings
Shortest Common Supersequence
参考资料：
https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-common-subsequence/
https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-common-subsequence/discuss/348884/C%2B%2B-with-picture-O(nm)