Leetcode NO.243 Shortest Word Distance

本题题目要求如下：

Given a list of words and two words word1 and word2, return the shortest distance between these two words in the list.

For example,
Assume that words = ["practice", "makes", "perfect", "coding", "makes"].

Given word1 = “coding”, word2 = “practice”, return 3.
Given word1 = "makes", word2 = "coding", return 1.

Note:
You may assume that word1 does not equal to word2, and word1 and word2 are both in the list.

本题思路还是比较直接的，就是one-pass，从头遍历，用两个变量存储此时最靠后的word1和word2的position，然后相减，和之前的最小值比较。。。。感觉还是代码比我说的清晰，直接看代码把：

class Solution {
public:
    int shortestDistance(vector<string>& words, string word1, string word2) {
        int pos1 = -1;
        int pos2 = -1;
        int mindis = INT_MAX;
        for (int i = 0; i < words.size(); ++i) {
            if (words[i] == word1) {
                pos1 = i;
            }
            else if (words[i] == word2) {
                pos2 = i;
            }
            if (pos1 != -1 and pos2 != -1) {
                mindis = min(mindis, abs(pos1 - pos2));
            }
        }
        return mindis;
    }
};