14. Longest Common Prefix

14. Longest Common Prefix

Write a function to find the longest common prefix string amongst an array of strings.

题意:

  在一个字符串数组中查找最长相同前缀。

思路:

  先找到字符串数组中最短的字符串,然后根据这个长度遍历每个string字符串中的字符,只要有一个字符串的字符不相等,则当前找的字符串就是最长相同前缀。

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class Solution {
public:
string longestCommonPrefix(vector<string>& strs) {
string res = "";
if (strs.empty())
return res;
int len = strs.size();
int minStrLen = INT_MAX;
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
minStrLen = min(minStrLen, (int)strs[i].size());
}
for (int j = 0; j < minStrLen; j++) {
char val = strs[0][j];
for (int i = 1; i < len; i++) {
if (val == strs[i][j])
continue;
else
return res;
}
res += val;
}
return res;
}
};

 Java Code:

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class Solution {
public String longestCommonPrefix(String[] strs) {
if (null == strs) {
return "";
}

int len = strs.length;
if (len == 0) {
return "";
}

int minStrLen = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
for (int i = 0;i < len;i++) {
minStrLen = Math.min(minStrLen, strs[i].length());
}

String res = "";
for (int j = 0;j < minStrLen;j++) {
char cur = strs[0].charAt(j);
for (int i = 1;i < len;i++) {
char next = strs[i].charAt(j);
if (cur == next) {
continue;
} else {
return res;
}
}
res += cur;
}

return res;

}
}