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.

Example 1:

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

Example 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().

class Solution {
    public int strStr(String haystack, String needle) {
        if (needle.length() == 0)
            return 0;
        int n = haystack.length() - needle.length() + 1;
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            int j = i;
            int k = 0;
            while (j < haystack.length() && k < needle.length() &&
                  haystack.charAt(j) == needle.charAt(k)) {
                j++;
                k++;
            }
            if (k == needle.length())
                return i;
        }
        return -1;
    }
}