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28. Find the Index of the First Occurrence in a String

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Problem Statement

28. Find the Index of the First Occurrence in a String

Medium


Given two strings needle and haystack, return the index of the first occurrence of needle in haystack, or -1 if needle is not part of haystack.

 

Example 1:

Input: haystack = "sadbutsad", needle = "sad"
Output: 0
Explanation: "sad" occurs at index 0 and 6.
The first occurrence is at index 0, so we return 0.

Example 2:

Input: haystack = "leetcode", needle = "leeto"
Output: -1
Explanation: "leeto" did not occur in "leetcode", so we return -1.

 

Constraints:

C++

Source file
class Solution {
public:
    int strStr(string haystack, string needle) {
        if(needle.length()>haystack.length())
            return -1;
        for(int i=0; i<=haystack.length()-needle.length(); i++){
            if(needle==haystack.substr(i, needle.length()))
                return i;
        }
        return -1;
    }
};