Censorship

Time Limit : 10 Second

Memory Limit : 128 MB

Submission: 94

Solved: 18

Description
As part of the new educational reform program, the CS department has decided to engage in censorship of
school texts. In this problem, you must help the department by writing a program which eliminates from
an input text string all occurrences of strings from a set of words to be filtered.
More formally, a word w can be removed from another string s if w is a substring of s (i.e., the char-
acters of w appear consecutively in s). Given a text string s and a set T of words to be filtered, return the
length of the shortest possible string that can result from iteratively removing words in T from s. Each word
in T may be removed from s an unlimited number of times.
Input
The input test file will contain multiple cases, with each case on a single line of input. Each test case begins
with a single integer n (where 1 ≤ n ≤ 50) indicating the size of the set T followed by a text string s to be
processed. Then, n strings t1 . . . tn indicating the words of T follow. The text string and all of the filter
words are guaranteed to contain only the characters ‘a’ through ‘z’ and will have lengths between 1 and 50.
All filter words will be unique. Input is terminated by a single line containing the number 0; do not process
this line.
Output
For each test case, print a single integer indicating the minimum length resulting string possible.
sample input
1 ccdedefcde cde
3 aabaab aa ba ab
3 aabaab aa ba bb
0
sample output
1
0
0
hint
Possible reductions giving the lengths shown for the three sample inputs are: ccdedefcde → cdefcde → fcde → f aabaab → baab → ab → ǫ aabaab → baab → bb → ǫ, where ǫ denotes the empty string.
source
Stanford Local 2007
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