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convert one string to another such that one char is changed at a time?

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How to convert one string to another such that only one character is changed at a time and after each change the transformed string is in the dictionary. You need to do this in the minimum number of transformations. For example the transformation from rat-->boy can be done as follows:

 rat-->bat-->bot-->boy (if dictionary has bat and bot)

Any suggestion on how to achieve this?

posted Nov 26, 2013 by anonymous

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After each change (one character at a time)there may be a string which is not in dictionary at all. In programming concern we would require to check whether the new string is in the dictionary or not? to check the string we need to have a array of strings,containing all the dictionary words,in practical it is not possible to create such string in programming languages like C, although it can be achieved if the user defined dictionary, of some limited words is used.

answer Mar 16, 2016 by Shahsikant Dwivedi
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