LeetCode-Longest Uncommon Subsequence I

Description：
Given a group of two strings, you need to find the longest uncommon subsequence of this group of two strings. The longest uncommon subsequence is defined as the longest subsequence of one of these strings and this subsequence should not be any subsequence of the other strings.

A subsequence is a sequence that can be derived from one sequence by deleting some characters without changing the order of the remaining elements. Trivially, any string is a subsequence of itself and an empty string is a subsequence of any string.

The input will be two strings, and the output needs to be the length of the longest uncommon subsequence. If the longest uncommon subsequence doesn’t exist, return -1.

Example 1:

Input: "aba", "cdc"
Output: 3

Explanation: The longest uncommon subsequence is “aba” (or “cdc”),
because “aba” is a subsequence of “aba”,
but not a subsequence of any other strings in the group of two strings.

Note:

Both strings' lengths will not exceed 100.
Only letters from a ~ z will appear in input strings.

题意：给定两个字符串S和T，找出两个字符串中最长的不相同字串；

解法：一共有一下几种情况

• a.equals(b)：如果两个字符串完全相同，那么肯定没有不相同的字串，因此，返回-1
• a.length() != b.length()：那么长度长的那个串作为字串肯定与长度小的那个串不相同，返回长度长的那个串的长度

Java

class Solution {
    public int findLUSlength(String a, String b) {
        return a.equals(b) ? -1 : Math.max(a.length(), b.length());
    }
}