Longest Common Substring (Java)
In computer science, the longest common substring problem is to find the longest string that is a substring of two or more strings.
Analysis
Given two strings a and b, let dp[i][j] be the length of the common substring ending at a[i] and b[j].
The dp table looks like the following given a="abc" and b="abcd".
Java Solution
public static int getLongestCommonSubstring(String a, String b){ int m = a.length(); int n = b.length(); int max = 0; int[][] dp = new int[m][n]; for(int i=0; i<m; i++){ for(int j=0; j<n; j++){ if(a.charAt(i) == b.charAt(j)){ if(i==0 || j==0){ dp[i][j]=1; }else{ dp[i][j] = dp[i-1][j-1]+1; } if(max < dp[i][j]) max = dp[i][j]; } } } return max; } |
This is a similar problem like longest common subsequence. The difference of the solution is that for this problem when a[i]!=b[j], dp[i][j] are all zeros by default. However, in the longest common subsequence problem, dp[i][j] values are carried from the previous values, i.e., dp[i-1][j] and dp[i][j-1].
<pre><code> String foo = "bar"; </code></pre>
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Rishabh Dubey