Daily Challenge 268 - Swapping Characters in Strings

You are given two strings s and t. Both strings have length n and consist of lowercase letters.

You can swap any two adjacent characters of s any number of times.
Output the minimum number of moves to transform s to t. If it is impossible to obtain the string t using moves, return -1.

Examples

('abcdef', 'abdfec') => 4
('abcd', 'accd') => -1
('ab', 'ab') => 0
('ab', 'ba') => 1
('aaa', 'aaa') => 0

Tests

{s:'abcdef', t:'abdfec'}
{s:'abcd', t:'accd'}

{s:'ab', t:'ab'}
{s:'ab', t:'ba'}
{s:'aaa', t:'aaa'}

Good luck!

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