lintcode:Longest Common Substring

Given two strings, find the longest common substring.

Return the length of it.

Example

Given A="ABCD", B="CBCE", return 2.

Note

The characters in substring should occur continuously in original string. This is different with subsequence.

class Solution {
public:    
    /**
     * @param A, B: Two string.
     * @return: the length of the longest common substring.
     */
    int longestCommonSubstring(string &A, string &B) {
        // write your code here
        
        int sizeA = A.size();
        int sizeB = B.size();
        int  max_len = 0;
        
        for (int i=0; i<sizeA; i++)
        {
            int  cur_i = i;
            int  cur_len = 0;
            bool match = false;
            
            for (int j=0; j<sizeB && cur_i<sizeA; j++)
            {
                if (A[cur_i] == B[j])
                {
                    if (!match)
                    {
                        match = true;
                        cur_i = i+1;
                        cur_len = 1;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        cur_i++;
                        cur_len++;
                    }
                    
                    max_len = max(max_len, cur_len);
                }
                
                else if (A[cur_i] != B[j])
                {
                    match = false;
                    cur_i = i;
                    cur_len = 0;
                }
            }
        }
        
        return max_len;
    }
};