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.
class Solution {
public:
int repeatedStringMatch(string A, string B) {
// A = "abcd" and B = "cdabcdab". return 3
if (A==B)return 1;
int i=1;
int la=A.length();
int lb=B.length();
if (la>(lb<<1)){
if (A.find(B)!=string::npos)
return 1;
}
else{//la<=lb
string backup=A;
for (i = 1; i <=(lb/la)+2 ; backup+=A,++i) {
//cout<<backup<<" i="<<i<<endl;
int newLen=backup.length();
if (newLen<lb)continue;
else{//newLen>=lb
if (backup.find(B)!=string::npos){
return i;
// break;
}//backup.find(B)==string::npos
}
}
}
return -1;
}
};
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.
class Solution {
public:
int repeatedStringMatch(string A, string B) {
// A = "abcd" and B = "cdabcdab". return 3
if (A==B)return 1;
int i=1;
int la=A.length();
int lb=B.length();
if (la>(lb<<1)){
if (A.find(B)!=string::npos)
return 1;
}
else{//la<=lb
string backup=A;
for (i = 1; i <=(lb/la)+2 ; backup+=A,++i) {
//cout<<backup<<" i="<<i<<endl;
int newLen=backup.length();
if (newLen<lb)continue;
else{//newLen>=lb
if (backup.find(B)!=string::npos){
return i;
// break;
}//backup.find(B)==string::npos
}
}
}
return -1;
}
};