Class Solution
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public final class Solution2515 - Shortest Distance to Target String in a Circular Array\.
Easy
You are given a 0-indexed circular string array
wordsand a stringtarget. A circular array means that the array's end connects to the array's beginning.Formally, the next element of
words[i]iswords[(i + 1) % n]and the previous element ofwords[i]iswords[(i - 1 + n) % n], wherenis the length ofwords.
Starting from
startIndex, you can move to either the next word or the previous word with1step at a time.Return the shortest distance needed to reach the string
target. If the stringtargetdoes not exist inwords, return-1.Example 1:
Input: words = "hello","i","am","leetcode","hello", target = "hello", startIndex = 1
Output: 1
Explanation: We start from index 1 and can reach "hello" by
moving 3 units to the right to reach index 4.
moving 2 units to the left to reach index 4.
moving 4 units to the right to reach index 0.
moving 1 unit to the left to reach index 0. The shortest distance to reach "hello" is 1.
Example 2:
Input: words = "a","b","leetcode", target = "leetcode", startIndex = 0
Output: 1
Explanation: We start from index 0 and can reach "leetcode" by
moving 2 units to the right to reach index 3.
moving 1 unit to the left to reach index 3.
The shortest distance to reach "leetcode" is 1.
Example 3:
Input: words = "i","eat","leetcode", target = "ate", startIndex = 0
Output: -1
Explanation: Since "ate" does not exist in
words, we return -1.Constraints:
1 <= words.length <= 1001 <= words[i].length <= 100words[i]andtargetconsist of only lowercase English letters.0 <= startIndex < words.length
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