String One Away Program

Problem

• One Away
• These are types of edits that can be performed on strings
• 1. insert a character
• 1. remove a character
• 1. replace a character
• Given two strings, write a function to check if they are one edit (or zero) away.

Program

function oneAway(str1, str2) {
    let set = new Set();

    for (let char of str1) {
        set.add(char);
    }

    for (let char of str2) {
        set.delete(char);
    }

    const diff = set.size;
    if (diff === 0 || diff === 1) {
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}

Output

console.log(oneAway('pale', 'ple'));
console.log(oneAway('pales', 'pale'));
console.log(oneAway('pale', 'bale'));
console.log(oneAway('pale', 'bake'));

Aravin

Dec 6th 2024