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Longest common substring ruby
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def find_longest_common_substring(s1, s2) | |
if (s1 == "" || s2 == "") | |
return "" | |
end | |
m = Array.new(s1.length){ [0] * s2.length } | |
longest_length, longest_end_pos = 0,0 | |
(0 .. s1.length - 1).each do |x| | |
(0 .. s2.length - 1).each do |y| | |
if s1[x] == s2[y] | |
m[x][y] = 1 | |
if (x > 0 && y > 0) | |
m[x][y] += m[x-1][y-1] | |
end | |
if m[x][y] > longest_length | |
longest_length = m[x][y] | |
longest_end_pos = x | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
return s1[longest_end_pos - longest_length + 1 .. longest_end_pos] | |
end |
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