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String Distance and Transform Process

String distance is a measure of the difference between two strings based on the minimum number of operations (insert, delete, replace characters) required to transform one string into the other. The program takes string pairs as input and outputs 1) the distance between the strings as an integer and 2) a list of commands with positions and values to transform the first string into the second string.

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String Distance and Transform Process

String distance is a measure of the difference between two strings based on the minimum number of operations (insert, delete, replace characters) required to transform one string into the other. The program takes string pairs as input and outputs 1) the distance between the strings as an integer and 2) a list of commands with positions and values to transform the first string into the second string.

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String Distance and Transform Process

String Distance is a non-negative integer that measures the distance between two strings. Here
we give the definition. A transform list is a list of strings, where each string, except for the last
one, can be changed to the string followed by adding a character, deleting a character or
replacing a character. The length of a transform list is the count of strings minus 1 (that is the
count of operations to transform these two strings). The distance between two strings is the
length of a transform list from one string to the other with the minimal length. You are to write a
program to calculate the distance between two strings and give the corresponding transform list.

Input
Input consists a sequence of string pairs, each string pair consists two lines, each string occupies
one line. The length of each string will be no more than 80.

Output
For each string pair, you should give an integer to indicate the length between them at the first
line, and give a sequence of command to transform string1 to string 2. Each command is a line
lead by command count, then the command. A command must be

Insert pos,value

Delete pos

Replace pos,value

where pos is the position of the string and pos should be between 1 and the current length of the
string (in Insert command, pos can be 1 greater than the length), and value is a character.
Actually many command lists can satisfy the request, but only one of them is required.

Print a blank line between consecutive datasets.

Sample Input
abcac
bcd
aaa
aabaaaa
Sample Output
3
1 Delete 1
2 Replace 3,d
3 Delete 4

4
1 Insert 1,a
2 Insert 2,a
3 Insert 3,b
4 Insert 7,a

Miguel A. Revilla
1999-01-11

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