# Program to check the string is repeating string or not in Python

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Suppose we have a string, we have to check whether it's a repeating string or not.

So, if the input is like string = "helloworldhelloworld", then the output will be True

To solve this, we will follow these steps −

• n := size of s
• Define a function findFactors() . This will take n
• f := a new set
• i := 1
• while i * i <= n, do
• if n mod i is same as 0, then
• insert quotient of (n / i) into f
• insert i into f
• i := i + 1
• return f
• From the main method, do the following −
• fact := findFactors(n)
• for each i in fact, do
• if i is same as n, then
• go for the next iteration
• ss := s[from index 0 to i-1]
• val := occurrences of ss in s
• if val is same as quotient of (n/i), then
• return True
• return False

Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding −

## Example

Live Demo

class Solution:
def solve(self, s):
n = len(s)
def findFactors(n):
f = set()
i = 1
while(i * i <= n):
if(n % i == 0):
i+= 1
return f
fact = findFactors(n)
for i in fact:
if(i == n):
continue
ss = s[:i]
val = s.count(ss)
if(val == int(n / i)):
return True
return False
ob = Solution()
print(ob.solve("helloworldhelloworld"))

## Input

"helloworldhelloworld"

## Output

True
Published on 07-Oct-2020 13:38:39