Practice Delete Operation for Two Strings
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Problem Statement
Given two strings word1 and word2, return the minimum number of steps required to make word1 and word2 the same. In one step, you can delete exactly one character in either string.
Source: Delete Operation for Two Strings on LeetCode. Use the original task for its coding environment and submissions.
Examples
# Example 1
Input
word1 = "sea", word2 = "eat"
Output
2
# Example 2
Input
word1 = "leetcode", word2 = "etco"
Output
4
Constraints
1 <= word1.length, word2.length <= 500
word1 and word2 consist of only lowercase English letters.
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