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Find The Longest Sequence Of Prefix Shared By All The Words In A String

Objective: Write an algorithm to find The Longest Sequence Of Prefix Shared By All The Words In A String. This interesting problem was asked in the Google interview for software engineer. This problem is bit tricky, it looks difficult but actually it is simple problem.

Input: A String

Output: The longest sequence of prefix common in all the words in a string

Example:

"Bedroom BedClock BedTable BedWall" => "Bed"

Approach:

  • Split the input by blank space and store it in arrA[].
  • Create int resultLen and store the first index string length in it (int resultLen = arrA[0].length())
  • Create another interger variable, int curr
  • Now run a loop in rest of the array.
  • Check if curr < resultLen and curr<length of current string in a loop
  • If so check if character at curr position matched in first index string and with the current string a loop, if so, increase curr by 1
  • Change resultLen = curr
  • Return substring of resultLen length

Code:


Output:

Original String : Sumit Summation Summit Sum
Common Prefix is : Sum



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