LeetCode 28. Implement strStr()

Implement strStr().

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

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().

Example 1:

Input: haystack = "hello", needle = "ll"
Output: 2

Example 2:

Input: haystack = "aaaaa", needle = "bba"
Output: -1

Example 3:

Input: haystack = "", needle = ""
Output: 0

Constraints:

• 0 <= haystack.length, needle.length <= 5 * 10^4

• haystack and needle consist of only lower-case English characters.

Solution:

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class Solution {
public:
    int strStr(string haystack, string needle) {
        int m = haystack.length(), n = needle.length();
        for (int i = 0; i < m - n + 1; i++) {
            int j = 0;
            for (; j < n; j++) {
                if (haystack[i + j] != needle[j]) {
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (j == n) {
                return i;
            }
        }
        return -1;
    }
};