Given two words (start and end), and a dictionary, find the length of shortest transformation sequence from start to end, such that:
- You must change exactly one character in every transformation
- Each intermediate word must exist in the dictionary
Example :
Given:
start = "hit"
end = "cog"
dict = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log"]
As one shortest transformation is "hit" -> "hot" -> "dot" -> "dog" -> "cog",
return its length 5.
Note that we account for the length of the transformation path instead of the number of transformation itself.
Note:
- Return 0 if there is no such transformation sequence.
- All words have the same length.
- All words contain only lowercase alphabetic characters.
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