[leetcode] problem 28 – implement strstr()

Implement strStr().

Returns the index of the first occurrence of needle in haystack, or -1 if needle is not part of haystack.

Example

No.1

Input: haystack = “hello”, needle = “ll”

Output: 2

No.2

Input: haystack = “aaaaa”, needle = “bba”

Output: -1

Clarification

What should we return when needle is an empty string? This is a great question to ask during an interview.

For the purpose of this problem, we will return 0 when needle is an empty string. This is consistent to C’s strstr() and Java’s indexOf().

Code

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public int (String haystack, String needle) {
for (int i = 0; i <= haystack.length() - needle.length(); i++) {
for (int j = 0; ; j++) {
if (j == needle.length())
return i;

if (needle.charAt(j) != haystack.charAt(i+j))
break;
}
}

return -1;
}