Word Ladder Problem Statement
Given two strings, BEGIN
and END
, along with an array of strings DICT
, determine the length of the shortest transformation sequence from BEGIN
to END
. Each transformation involves changing exactly one alphabet, and the resulting word after each transformation must be present in DICT
.
Input:
Integer T representing number of test cases.
For each test case:
A string BEGIN.
A string END.
An integer N representing the length of the DICT array.
N space-separated strings denoting words in DICT.
Output:
For each test case, the output is a single integer indicating the length of the shortest transformation sequence from BEGIN to END. Output each test case result on a separate line.
Example:
# Example 1 Input:
2
hit
cog
5
hot dot dog lot log
hit
hot
2
hot cog
Output:
# Example 1 Output:
5
2
Constraints:
- 1 ≤ T ≤ 5
- 1 ≤ N ≤ 102
- 1 ≤ |S| ≤ 102
- All words have the same length.
- All transformations involve only lowercase English letters.
BEGIN
will not equalEND
.
Note:
Return -1
if no transformation sequence from BEGIN
to END
is possible. Implement the function, as printing is handled separately.
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