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export default function ladderLength( beginWord: string, endWord: string, wordList: string[],): number { const words = new Set(wordList); if (!words.has(endWord)) return 0;
if (beginWord.length === 1) return 2;
let current = new Set([beginWord]);
let rightcurrent = new Set([endWord]); words.delete(endWord); let step = 1; while (current.size) { if (current.size > rightcurrent.size) { [current, rightcurrent] = [rightcurrent, current]; }
const temp: Set<string> = new Set();
for (const word of current) { for (const right of rightcurrent) { if (diffOneChar(word, right)) { return step + 1; } } for (const other of words) { if (diffOneChar(other, word)) { temp.add(other);
words.delete(other); } } }
if (temp.size === 0) return 0; current = temp; step = step + 1; }
return 0;}
function diffOneChar(word1: string, word2: string): boolean { let changes = 0; for (let i = 0; i < word1.length; i++) { if (word1[i] != word2[i]) changes += 1; } return changes === 1;}