Problem Link : http://www.lightoj.com/volume_showproblem.php?problem=1039
/* +-+ +-+ +-+ |R| |.| |S| +-+ +-+ +-+ */ #include <bits/stdc++.h> #define pii pair <int,int> #define sc scanf #define pf printf #define Pi 2*acos(0.0) #define ms(a,b) memset(a, b, sizeof(a)) #define pb(a) push_back(a) #define MP make_pair #define db double #define ll long long #define EPS 10E-10 #define ff first #define ss second #define sqr(x) (x)*(x) #define D(x) cout<<#x " = "<<(x)<<endl #define VI vector <int> #define DBG pf("Hi\n") #define MOD 100007 #define MAX 10000 #define CIN ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(0) #define SZ(a) (int)a.size() #define sf(a) scanf("%d",&a) #define sff(a,b) scanf("%d%d",&a,&b) #define sfff(a,b,c) scanf("%d%d%d",&a,&b,&c) #define loop(i,n) for(int i=0;i<n;i++) #define REP(i,a,b) for(int i=a;i<b;i++) #define TEST_CASE(t) for(int z=1;z<=t;z++) #define PRINT_CASE printf("Case %d: ",z) #define all(a) a.begin(),a.end() #define intlim 2147483648 #define inf 1000000 #define ull unsigned long long using namespace std; map<string,bool> visited,block; struct data { string str; int cnt=0; data(string s, int n) { str=s; cnt=n; } }; bool test(string str) { if(visited[str]) return 0; return 1; } int bfs(string src,string dst) { visited.clear(); visited[src]=1; data u(src,0); queue<data>Q; Q.push(u); while(!Q.empty()) { u=Q.front(); Q.pop(); if(block[u.str]) continue; if(u.str==dst) return u.cnt; for(int i=0; i<3; i++) { string temp=u.str; temp[i]++; if(temp[i]=='z'+1) temp[i]='a'; if(test(temp)) { visited[temp]=1; data v(temp,u.cnt+1); Q.push(v); } string temp1=u.str; temp1[i]-=1; if(temp1[i]=='a'-1) temp1[i]='z'; if(test(temp1)) { visited[temp1]=1; data v(temp1,u.cnt+1); Q.push(v); } } } return -1; } int main() { ///freopen("in.txt","r",stdin); ///freopen("out.txt","w",stdout); int t; sf(t); TEST_CASE(t) { string str1,str2; cin>>str1>>str2; int n; sf(n); while(n--) { string tmp1,tmp2,tmp3; cin>>tmp1>>tmp2>>tmp3; loop(i,SZ(tmp1)) { string xx; xx+=tmp1[i]; loop(i,SZ(tmp2)) { xx+=tmp2[i]; loop(i,SZ(tmp3)) { xx+=tmp3[i]; block[xx]=1; xx.erase(xx.end()-1,xx.end()); } xx.erase(xx.end()-1,xx.end()); } xx.erase(xx.end()-1,xx.end()); } } PRINT_CASE; pf("%d\n",bfs(str1,str2)); block.clear(); } return 0; }