Problem
You are given two strings s and t such that every character occurs at most once in s and t is a permutation of s.
The permutation difference between s and t is defined as the sum of the absolute difference between the index of the occurrence of each character in s and the index of the occurrence of the same character in t.
Return the permutation difference between s and t.
Example 1:
Input: s = “abc”, t = “bac”
Output: 2
Explanation:
For s = “abc” and t = “bac”, the permutation difference of s and t is equal to the sum of:
The absolute difference between the index of the occurrence of “a” in s and the index of the occurrence of “a” in t. The absolute difference between the index of the occurrence of “b” in s and the index of the occurrence of “b” in t. The absolute difference between the index of the occurrence of “c” in s and the index of the occurrence of “c” in t.
| That is, the permutation difference between s and t is equal to | 0 - 1 | + | 2 - 2 | + | 1 - 0 | = 2. |
Example 2:
Input: s = “abcde”, t = “edbac”
Output: 12
| Explanation: The permutation difference between s and t is equal to | 0 - 3 | + | 1 - 2 | + | 2 - 4 | + | 3 - 1 | + | 4 - 0 | = 12. |
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 26 Each character occurs at most once in s. t is a permutation of s. s consists only of lowercase English letters.
Pre analysis
Will just follow the algorithm and check the difference between the index of the occurrence of each character in s and the index of the occurrence of the same character in t.