Given two strings A and B, find the minimum number of times A has to be repeated such that B is a substring of it. If no such solution, return -1.
For example, with A = "abcd" and B = "cdabcdab".
Return 3, because by repeating A three times (“abcdabcdabcd”), B is a substring of it; and B is not a substring of A repeated two times ("abcdabcd").
Note:
The length of A
and B
will be between 1 and 10000.
这道题是用字符串B来匹配字符串A,求字符串A需要重复几次,如果无法匹配,则返回-1。
首先,如果B能成为A的字符串,那么A的长度肯定要>=B,所以当A的长度小于B的时候,我们可以先进行重复A,直到A的长度大于等于B,并且累计次数cnt。
再来看B是否存在A中,如果存在直接返回cnt。如果不存在,我们加上一个A再找(这样可以处理这种情况A="abc", B="cab")如果此时还找不到,说明无法匹配,返回-1。
class Solution {
public:
int repeatedStringMatch(string A, string B) {
int n1 = A.size(), n2 = B.size(), cnt = 1;
string t = A;
while (t.size() < n2) {
t += A;
++cnt;
}
if (t.find(B) != string::npos) return cnt;
t += A;
return (t.find(B) != string::npos) ? cnt + 1 : -1;
}
};