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Algorithm Implementation/Strings/Longest common leading/trailing substring
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This algorithm is a special case of the Longest Common Substring algorithm. The special case of leading (or trailing) gives a dramatic performance improvement - in my application roughly two orders of magnitude better.
Unfortunately I've only provided Perl at the moment, because thats what I need for my project! I'm hoping others who need this algorithm in other languages will record their implementation here.
C#
Longest common leading and trail substrings
public static string LCS_start(string word1, string word2)
{
int end1 = word1.Length - 1;
int end2 = word2.Length - 1;
int pos = 0;
while (pos <= end1 && pos <= end2)
{
if (word1[pos] != word2[pos])
{
pos++;
}
}
return word1.Substring(0,pos);
}
public static string LCS_end(string word1, string word2)
{
int pos1 = word1.Length - 1;
int pos2 = word2.Length - 1;
while (pos1 >= 0 && pos2 >= 0)
{
if (word1[pos1] != word2[pos2])
{
pos1--;
pos2--;
}
}
return word1.Substring(pos1 + 1);
}
Javascript
Longest common leading and trail substrings
function LCS_start( word1, word2) {
let end1 = word1.length - 1
let end2 = word2.length - 1
let pos = 0
while (pos <= end1 && pos <= end2){
if (word1[pos] != word2[pos]) {
return word1.substring(0,pos)
} else {
pos++
}
}
}
function LCS_end( word1, word2) {
let pos1 = word1.length - 1
let pos2 = word2.length - 1
while (pos1 >= 0 && pos2 >= 0){
if (word1[pos1] != word2[pos2]) {
return word1.substring(pos1 + 1)
} else {
pos1--
pos2--
}
}
}
Perl
Longest common leading substring
sub lcl_substr
{
my $s1 = shift;
my $s2 = shift;
my $end1 = length($s1) - 1;
my $end2 = length($s2) - 1;
my $pos = 0;
while ($pos <= $end1 && $pos <= $end2)
{
last if substr($s1, $pos, 1) ne substr($s2, $pos, 1);
$pos++;
}
return substr($s1, 0, $pos);
}
Longest common trailing substring
sub lct_substr
{
my $s1 = shift;
my $s2 = shift;
my $pos1 = length($s1) - 1;
my $pos2 = length($s2) - 1;
while ($pos1 >= 0 && $pos2 >= 0)
{
last if substr($s1, $pos1, 1) ne substr($s2, $pos2, 1);
$pos1--;
$pos2--;
}
return substr($s1, $pos1+1);
}
Python
Longest common leading substring
def longest_common_leading_substring(string1, string2):
common = ''
for s1, s2 in zip(string1, string2):
if s1 == s2:
common += s1
return common
Longest common trailing substring
def longest_common_trailing_substring(string1, string2):
common = ''
for s1, s2 in zip(string1[-1::-1], string2[-1::-1]):
if s1 == s2:
common += s1
return common[-1::-1]