Lintcode: Longest Common Substring

Given two strings, find the longest common substring.



Return the length of it.



Note

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



Example

Given A=“ABCD”, B=“CBCE”, return  2

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。

 1 public class Solution {

 2     /**

 3      * @param A, B: Two strings.

 4      * @return: The length of longest common subsequence of A and B.

 5      */

 6     public int longestCommonSubstring(String A, String B) {

 7         // write your code here

 8         int[][] res = new int[A.length()+1][B.length()+1];

 9         int result = 0;

10         for (int i=0; i<=A.length(); i++) {

11             for (int j=0; j<=B.length(); j++) {

12                 if (i==0 || j==0) {

13                     res[i][j] = 0;

14                     continue;

15                 }

16                 if (A.charAt(i-1) != B.charAt(j-1)) res[i][j] = 0;

17                 else res[i][j] = res[i-1][j-1]+1;

18                 result = Math.max(result, res[i][j]);

19             }

20         }

21         return result;

22     }

23 }