// Given two strings S and T, determine if they are both one edit distance apart. public class OneEditDistance { public boolean isOneEditDistance(String s, String t) { //iterate through the length of the smaller string for(int i = 0; i < Math.min(s.length(), t.length()); i++) { //if the current characters of the two strings are not equal if(s.charAt(i) != t.charAt(i)) { //return true if the remainder of the two strings are equal, false otherwise if(s.length() == t.length()) { return s.substring(i + 1).equals(t.substring(i + 1)); } else if(s.length() < t.length()) { //return true if the strings would be the same if you deleted a character from string t return s.substring(i).equals(t.substring(i + 1)); } else { //return true if the strings would be the same if you deleted a character from string s return t.substring(i).equals(s.substring(i + 1)); } } } //if all characters match for the length of the two strings check if the two strings' lengths do not differ by more than 1 return Math.abs(s.length() - t.length()) == 1; } }