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Program to find length of longest common substring in C++
Suppose we have two lowercase strings X and Y, we have to find the length of their longest common substring.
So, if the input is like X = "helloworld", Y = "worldbook", then the output will be 5, as "world" is the longest common substring and its length is 5.
To solve this, we will follow these steps −
Define an array longest of size: m+1 x n+1.
len := 0
for initialize i := 0, when i <= m, update (increase i by 1), do −
for initialize j := 0, when j <= n, update (increase j by 1), do −
if i is same as 0 or j is same as 0, then −
longest[i, j] := 0
otherwise when X[i - 1] is same as Y[j - 1], then −
longest[i, j] := longest[i - 1, j - 1] + 1
if len < longest[i, j], then −
len := longest[i, j]
row := i
col := j
Otherwise
longest[i, j] := 0
return len
Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding −
Example
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
using namespace std;
int solve(char* X, char* Y, int m, int n){
int longest[m + 1][n + 1];
int len = 0;
int row, col;
for (int i = 0; i <= m; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j <= n; j++) {
if (i == 0 || j == 0)
longest[i][j] = 0;
else if (X[i - 1] == Y[j - 1]) {
longest[i][j] = longest[i - 1][j - 1] + 1;
if (len < longest[i][j]) {
len = longest[i][j];
row = i;
col = j;
}
}
else
longest[i][j] = 0;
}
}
return len;
}
int main(){
char X[] = "helloworld";
char Y[] = "worldbook";
int m = strlen(X);
int n = strlen(Y);
cout << solve(X, Y, m, n);
return 0;
}Input
"helloworld", "worldbook"
Output
5
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