Leetcode #244. Shortest Word Distance II

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HashMap:

class WordDistance {
    public int res = Integer.MAX_VALUE;

    public HashMap<String, ArrayList<Integer>> map = new HashMap<>();

    public WordDistance(String[] words) {
        for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
            if (!map.containsKey(words[i])) {
                map.put(words[i], new ArrayList<Integer>());
            }
            map.get(words[i]).add(i);
        }
    }

    public int shortest(String word1, String word2) {
        ArrayList<Integer> l1 = map.get(word1);
        ArrayList<Integer> l2 = map.get(word2);
        int res = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        for (int i = 0; i < l1.size(); i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < l2.size(); j++) {
                res = Math.min(res, Math.abs(l1.get(i) - l2.get(j)));
            }
        }

        return res;
    }
}

/**
 * Your WordDistance object will be instantiated and called as such:
 * WordDistance obj = new WordDistance(words);
 * int param_1 = obj.shortest(word1,word2);
 */