CodeForces 545B Equidistant String

http://codeforces.com/problemset/problem/545/B

Equidistant String

Little Susie loves strings. Today she calculates distances between them. As Susie is a small girl after all, her strings contain only digits zero and one. She uses the definition of Hamming distance:

We will define the distance between two strings s and t of
the same length consisting of digits zero and one as the number of positions i, such that si isn't
equal to ti.

As besides everything else Susie loves symmetry, she wants to find for two strings s and t of
length n such string p of
length n, that the distance from p to s was
equal to the distance from p to t.

It's time for Susie to go to bed, help her find such string p or state that it is impossible.

Input

The first line contains string s of length n.

The second line contains string t of length n.

The length of string n is within range from 1 to 105.
It is guaranteed that both strings contain only digits zero and one.

Output

Print a string of length n, consisting of digits zero and one, that meets the problem statement. If no such string exist, print on
a single line "impossible" (without the quotes).

If there are multiple possible answers, print any of them.

Sample test(s)

input

0001
1011

output

0011

input

000
111

output

impossible

Note

In the first sample different answers are possible, namely — 0010, 0011, 0110, 0111, 1000, 1001, 1100, 1101.

题意：找到一个字符串，使这个字符串与字符串s的差值和字符串t的差值相等，有多种情况，输出一个即可

思路：判断字符串s和字符串t有多少个对应字符不相等，如果有偶数个的话就存在字符串p，否则输出“impossible“，存在的话，从第一个位置开始遍历，如果s[i]和t[i]不相等的话，当是第奇数次的话将s[i]值付给p[i],当偶数次的时候将t[i]付给p[i],当s[i]和t[i]相等时候，将s[i]付给p[i]；

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
#include <cstdio>
#include <algorithm>
#include <cmath>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <limits>
#include <queue>
#include <stack>
#include <vector>
#include <map>

using namespace std;
typedef long long LL;

#define N 110000
#define INF 0x3f3f3f3f
#define PI acos (-1.0)
#define EPS 1e-8
#define met(a, b) memset (a, b, sizeof (a))

int main ()
{
char s
, t
, p
;

while (scanf ("%s %s", s, t) != EOF)
{
int cnt = 0, len = strlen (s);
met (p, 0);

for (int i=0; s[i]; i++)
if (s[i] != t[i])
cnt++;

if (cnt % 2)
{
puts ("impossible");
continue;
}

int flag = 1;
for (int i=0; s[i]; i++)
{
if (s[i] == t[i])
p[i] = s[i];
else if (flag % 2)
{
p[i] = s[i];
flag++;
}
else if (flag % 2 == 0)
{
p[i] = t[i];
flag++;
}
}
p[len] = '\0';
puts (p);
}
return 0;
}