Shortest distance between words, Java

Shortest distance between words

//'main' method must be in a class 'Rextester'.
//Compiler version 1.8.0_111

import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;

class Rextester
{  
    public static int shortestDistBetweenWords(String[] list,String word1,String word2){
        int index1 = -1;
        int index2 = -1;
        int minDist = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        for(int i = 0;i<list.length;i++){
            if(list[i]==word1){
                index1 = i;
                if(index2!=-1){
                    minDist = Math.min(minDist,Math.abs(index2-index1));
                }
            }
            else if(list[i]==word2){
                index2 = i;
                if(index1!=-1){
                    minDist = Math.min(minDist,Math.abs(index2-index1));
                }
            }
        }
        return minDist;
    }
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        System.out.println("Hello, World!");
        System.out.println(shortestDistBetweenWords(new String[]{"quick","brown","jumped","the","fox"},"quick","fox"));
    }
}


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