28. 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().
Constraints:
haystack
andneedle
consist only of lowercase English characters.
# @param {String} haystack
# @param {String} needle
# @return {Integer}
def str_str(haystack, needle)
if !haystack.empty? && needle.empty?
return 0
end
if haystack.include?(needle)
return haystack.index(needle)
end
return -1
end
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