Problem:
Implement strStr ().
Returns the index of the first occurrence of needle in haystack, or-1 if needle are not part of haystack.
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Solution:O(nm) Runtime,O(1) Space–brute Force:
You could demonstrate to your interviewer the This problem can be solved using known efficient algorithms such as rabin-k ARP algorithm, KMP algorithm, and the Boyer-moore algorithm. Since These algorithms is usually studied in a advanced algorithms class, it's sufficient to solve it using the most DI Rect method in a Interview–the brute force method.
The brute force method was straightforward to implement. We Scan the needle with the haystack from their first position and start matching all subsequent letters one by one. If One of the letters does not match, we start over again with the next position in the haystack.
The key is to implement the solution cleanly without dealing with each edge case separately.
Classic KMP Application, violence or not to mention, refer to here: From beginning to end thoroughly understand KMP
Title: To two strings, the second string in the first string to appear in the smallest position, if not appear, then output-1
Java source Code (323MS):
public class Solution {public int strStr (String haystack, string needle) { char[] Chs1=haystack.tochararray (); C2/>char[] Chs2=needle.tochararray (); int len1=chs1.length,len2=chs2.length; Int[] Next=new int[len2+1]; GetNext (CHS2,NEXT,LEN2); int i=0,j=0; while (I<len1 && j<len2) { if (J==-1 | | chs1[i]==chs2[j]) { i++;j++; } else{ j=next[j]; } } if (j<len2) return-1; return i-len2; } private void GetNext (char[] chs,int[] Next,int len) { int i=0,j=-1; Next[0]=-1; while (I<len) { if (J==-1 | | chs[i]==chs[j]) { i++;j++; next[i]=j; } else{ j=next[j];}}}
C Language Source code (2MS):
void GetNext (char *needle,int* next) { int i=0,j=-1; Next[0]=-1; while (Needle[i]) { if (J==-1 | | needle[j]==needle[i]) { j + +; i++; next[i]=j; } else{ j=next[j];}} } int strStr (char* haystack, char* needle) { int length=strlen (needle), i=0,j=0; int *next= (int*) malloc (sizeof (int) * (length+1)); GetNext (needle,next); while (J==-1 | | (Haystack[i] && needle[j])) { if (J==-1 | | haystack[i]==needle[j]) { j++;i++; } else{ j=next[j]; } } if (Needle[j]) return-1; else return i-length;}
C + + source code (8MS):
Class Solution {public: int strStr (String haystack, string needle) { int len1=haystack.size (), len2=needle.size (); int* next= (int*) malloc (sizeof (int) * (len2+1)); GetNext (NEEDLE,NEXT,LEN2); int i=0,j=0; while (I<len1 && j<len2) { if (J==-1 | | haystack[i]==needle[j]) { i++;j++; } else{ j=next[j]; } } if (j<len2) return-1; else return i-len2; } Private: void GetNext (string needle,int* next,int len1) { int i=0,j=-1; Next[0]=-1; while (I<LEN1) { if (J==-1 | | needle[i]==needle[j]) { j++;i++; next[i]=j; } else{ j=next[j];}}} ;
Python source code (74MS):
Class solution: # @param {string} haystack # @param {string} needle # @return {integer} def strStr (self, Haystack, needle): Len1=len (haystack); Len2=len (needle) next=[-1 for I in Range (len2+1)] Self.getnext ( NEEDLE,NEXT,LEN2) i=0;j=0 while i<len1 and j<len2: if J==-1 or haystack[i]==needle[j]: i+=1;j +=1 Else:j=next[j] if j<len2:return-1 else:return i-len2 def getNext (self,needle,next,len2 ): i=0;j=-1 while i<len2: if J==-1 or needle[i]==needle[j]: i+=1 j+=1 next[i]=j Else:j=next[j]
Leetcode Implement strStr (C,c++,java,python)