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As an assignment, students at HackerLand High School are to find a subsequence using two strings by performing the below-mentioned operation. Given two strings firstString of length n and secondString of length m, the goal is to make secondString a subsequence of firstString by applying the operation any number of times. In one operation, any single character can be removed from the secondString. The goal is to find the minimum possible difference value which is calculated as: | maximum index of all the characters removed from the string secondString | — |minimum index of all the characters removed from the string secondString |+ 1. Removing a character from secondString does not affect the indices of the other characters and an enmpty string is always a subsequence of firstString.

Example n= 10, first-string = HACKERRANK m=9, secondString = HACKERMAN Remove the character at index 7 to change second string to "HACKERAN", a subsequence of firstString. The difference value is 7 -7+1 =1. Return 1.

Constraints " 1<=n<=10^5 " 1<=m<=10^5

Tags help, strings, subsequence problem

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