You are given two strings s
and t
. Both strings have length n
and consist of lowercase letters.
You can swap any two adjacent characters of s
any number of times.
Output the minimum number of moves to transform s to t. If it is impossible to obtain the string t
using moves, return -1.
Examples
('abcdef', 'abdfec') => 4
('abcd', 'accd') => -1
('ab', 'ab') => 0
('ab', 'ba') => 1
('aaa', 'aaa') => 0
Tests
{s:'abcdef', t:'abdfec'}
{s:'abcd', t:'accd'}
{s:'ab', t:'ab'}
{s:'ab', t:'ba'}
{s:'aaa', t:'aaa'}
Good luck!
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