acm
cz
acm
cz
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Ostrava
Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Zilina
CTU Open Contest 2008
Careful Declaration
declare.c, declare.C, declare.java, declare.p
“Do not panic!" That is not only the inscription on a famous book cover, but it is also a message
that all banks need to deliver to their clients during every and each crisis, whatever negligible.
If the clients started to panic, it would mean the end for any bank.
To calm down their clients, the banks and governments may issue various declarations stating
that there is real ly nothing to worry about. It is very important for such declarations to be
consistent, otherwise the people may not believe them.
Imagine that we have two declarations, one suggested by a bank and the other coming from the
government. They finally decided to merge those two declarations into a single one and issue it
together. (People may think there is some problem if there are too many declarations.) Both
the bank and the government insist that the common declaration must contain the whole text
of their original declarations.
Your task is to create the joint declaration that will be issued at a press conference tonight. The
main condition is that the resulting text must contain all words from the two original proposals,
in the same order. Also, we have to keep the declaration as short as possible.
Input Specification
The input contains several test cases, each consisting of two lines of text giving two original
declarations. Both lines contain at least one and at most two thousand words separated by
a space. Each of the words is formed by lowercase letters of the English alphabet (a–z). Each
word will contain at least one such letter and no more than 10 letters. There is a single dot
(“.") after the last word of each declaration, the dot is also preceded by one space.
There is one additional line with a single dot after the last test case in the input.
Output Specification
Your program has to output a single line of text for each test case. The line should contain
a sequence of words separated by a space. The sequence must have the following properties:
1. Both input texts are subsequences of the output text, i.e., all words of each original text
appear in the result in the same order, though they may be interleaved by other words.
2. Among all such possible texts, your output must contain the smallest possible number of
words.
3. If there are several possibilities of the same length, choose the one that is lexicographically
smallest.
Output a space and a single dot “." after the last word of the declaration.
pg_0002
Text A is called to be lexicographically smaller than text B, if it “would be first in a regular
dictionary". More exactly, if the first word that is di.erent in both texts is lexicographically
smaller in text A than in text B.
Similarly, word C is called to be lexicographically smaller then word D, if (a) for the first letter
that is di.erent in both words, the letter in word C comes earlier in the alphabet than the letter
in word D, or (b) word C is shorter and it is a prefix of word D.
Sample Input
all our banks are sound and safe .
all deposits in our bank are safe do not worry .
everything fine firmly under control .
deposits in bank abc are fine like nothing is .
.
Output for Sample Input
all deposits in our bank banks are sound and safe do not worry .
deposits everything in bank abc are fine firmly like nothing is under control .