Given two strings s1 and s2, check whether s2 is a rotation of s1.Â
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Input : ABACD, CDABA
Output : True
Input : GEEKS, EKSGE
Output : True
We have discussed an approach in earlier post which handles substring match as a pattern. In this post, we will be going to use KMP algorithm’s lps (longest proper prefix which is also suffix) construction, which will help in finding the longest match of the prefix of string b and suffix of string a. By which we will know the rotating point, from this point match the characters. If all the characters are matched, then it is a rotation, else not.
Below is the basic implementation of the above approach.Â
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Java
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;
class stringMatching {
public static boolean isRotation(String a, String b)
{
int n = a.length();
int m = b.length();
if (n != m)
return false ;
int lps[] = new int [n];
int len = 0 ;
int i = 1 ;
lps[ 0 ] = 0 ;
while (i < n) {
if (a.charAt(i) == b.charAt(len)) {
lps[i] = ++len;
++i;
}
else {
if (len == 0 ) {
lps[i] = 0 ;
++i;
}
else {
len = lps[len - 1 ];
}
}
}
i = 0 ;
for ( int k = lps[n - 1 ]; k < m; ++k) {
if (b.charAt(k) != a.charAt(i++))
return false ;
}
return true ;
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String s1 = "ABACD" ;
String s2 = "CDABA" ;
System.out.println(isRotation(s1, s2) ? "1" : "0" );
}
}
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Output:Â
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Time Complexity: O(n)Â
Auxiliary Space: O(n)
Please refer complete article on Check if strings are rotations of each other or not | Set 2 for more details!