Lintcode: Longest Common Substring 解题报告

Longest Common Substring

原题链接： http://lintcode.com/zh-cn/problem/longest-common-substring/#

Given two strings, find the longest common substring.

Return the length of it.

注意

The characters in substring should occur continiously in original string. This is different with subsequnce.

样例

 

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SOLUTION 1:

DP:

D[i][j] 定义为：两个string的前i个和前j个字符串，尾部连到最后的最长子串。

D[i][j] = 

1. i = 0 || j = 0 : 0

2. s1.char[i - 1] = s2.char[j - 1] ? D[i-1][j-1] + 1 : 0;

另外，创建一个max的缓存，不段更新即可。

public class Solution {
    /**
     * @param A, B: Two string.
     * @return: the length of the longest common substring.
     */
    public int longestCommonSubstring(String A, String B) {
        // write your code here
        if (A == null || B == null) {
            return 0;
        }
        
        int lenA = A.length();
        int lenB = B.length();
        
        // bug 1: use error init.
        int[][] D = new int[lenA + 1][lenB + 1];
        
        int max = 0;
        
        // BUG 2: should use <= instead of <
        for (int i = 0; i <= lenA; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j <= lenB; j++) {
                if (i == 0 || j == 0) {
                    D[i][j] = 0;
                } else {
                    if (A.charAt(i - 1) == B.charAt(j - 1)) {
                        D[i][j] = D[i - 1][j - 1] + 1;
                    } else {
                        D[i][j] = 0;
                    }
                }
                
                max = Math.max(max, D[i][j]);
            }
        }
        
        return max;
    }
}

GITHUB:

https://github.com/yuzhangcmu/LeetCode_algorithm/blob/master/lintcode/dp/LongestCommonSubstring.java