14. Longest Common Prefix

Java

public class Solution {
    public String longestCommonPrefix(String[] strs) {
        if(strs.length==0) return "";
        int count=0; boolean search=true;
        while(search){
            if(strs[0].length()<=count) break;
            for(int i=1; i<strs.length; i++){
                if(strs[i].length()<=count||strs[i].charAt(count)!=strs[i-1].charAt(count)) {search=false; count--; break;}
            }
            count++;
        }
        return strs[0].substring(0,count);
    }
}

Python

class Solution(object):
    def longestCommonPrefix(self, strs):
        """
        :type strs: List[str]
        :rtype: str
        """
        if len(strs)==0:
            return ""
        minLen=sys.maxint
        maxPre=""
        for i in range(len(strs)):
            minLen=min(minLen,len(strs[i]))
        for i in range(minLen):
            for j in range(len(strs)-1):
                if strs[j][i]!=strs[j+1][i]:
                    return maxPre
            maxPre+=strs[0][i]
        return maxPre