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Fare Between Stops on a Train Route

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Problem statement

A train route is given as an ordered array of unique stop names. Traveling across one adjacent segment costs one fare unit in either direction.

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Example 1

route = ["G","U","H","K","I"]start = "G"stop = "I"return = 4

The endpoints are four adjacent segments apart.

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