Ruby实现的最长公共子序列算法

最长公共子序列，lcs，动态规划实现。

#encoding: utf-8
#author: xu jin, 4100213
#date: nov 01, 2012
#longest-commom-subsequence
#to find a longest commom subsequence of two given character arrays by using lcs algorithm
#example output:
#the random character arrays are: ["b", "a", "c", "a", "a", "b", "d"] and ["a", "c", "a", "c", "a", "a", "b"]
#the longest-commom-subsequence is: a c a a b

chars = ("a".."e").to_a
x, y = [], []
1.upto(rand(5) + 5) { |i| x << chars[rand(chars.size-1)] }
1.upto(rand(5) + 5) { |i| y << chars[rand(chars.size-1)] }
printf("the random character arrays are: %s and %s\n", x, y)
c = array.new(x.size + 1){array.new(y.size + 1)}
b = array.new(x.size + 1){array.new(y.size + 1)}

def lcs_length(x, y ,c ,b) 
   m, n = x.size, y.size
   (0..m).each{|i| c[i][0] = 0}
   (0..n).each{|j| c[0][j] = 0}
   for i in (1..m) do
    for j in(1..n) do
    if(x[i - 1] == y [j - 1])
     c[i][j] = c[i - 1][j - 1] + 1;
     b[i][j] = 0
    else
     if(c[i - 1][j] >= c[i][j - 1])
      c[i][j] = c[i - 1][j]
      b[i][j] = 1
     else
      c[i][j] = c[i][j - 1]
      b[i][j] = 2
     end
    end
   end
   end
end

def print_lcs(x, b, i, j)
  return if(i == 0 || j == 0)
  if(b[i][j] == 0)
    print_lcs(x, b, i-1, j-1)
    printf("%c ", x[i - 1])
  elsif(b[i][j] == 1)
    print_lcs(x, b, i-1, j)
  else
    print_lcs(x, b, i, j-1)
  end
end

lcs_length(x, y, c ,b) 
print "the longest-commom-subsequence is: "
print_lcs(x, b, x.size, y.size)