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1092. Shortest Common Supersequence (Hard)

Given two strings str1 and str2, return the shortest string that has both str1 and str2 as subsequences. If there are multiple valid strings, return any of them.

A string s is a subsequence of string t if deleting some number of characters from t (possibly 0) results in the string s.

 

Example 1:

Input: str1 = "abac", str2 = "cab"
Output: "cabac"
Explanation: 
str1 = "abac" is a subsequence of "cabac" because we can delete the first "c".
str2 = "cab" is a subsequence of "cabac" because we can delete the last "ac".
The answer provided is the shortest such string that satisfies these properties.

Example 2:

Input: str1 = "aaaaaaaa", str2 = "aaaaaaaa"
Output: "aaaaaaaa"

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= str1.length, str2.length <= 1000
• str1 and str2 consist of lowercase English letters.

Related Topics

[String] [Dynamic Programming]

Hints

Hint 1

We can find the length of the longest common subsequence between str1[i:] and str2[j:] (for all (i, j)) by using dynamic programming. We can use this information to recover the longest common supersequence.