C++ Program to Find Length of Longest Common Substring

This C++ Program finds Length of Longest Common Substring.

Here is source code of the C++ Program to Find Length of Longest Common Substring. The C++ program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

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 * C++ Program to Find Length of Longest Common Substring

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#include<iostream>
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#include<cstring>
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using namespace std;
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// A utility function to find maximum of two integers

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int max(int a, int b)
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    return (a > b)? a : b;
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}
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/* Returns length of longest common substring of X[0..m-1] and Y[0..n-1] */

int LCSubStr(char *X, char *Y, int m, int n)

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{
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    int LCSuff[m + 1][n + 1];
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    int result = 0;
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    for (int i = 0; i <= m; i++)
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    {
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        for (int j=0; j<=n; j++)
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        {
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            if (i == 0 || j == 0)
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                LCSuff[i][j] = 0;
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            else if (X[i-1] == Y[j-1])
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            {
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                LCSuff[i][j] = LCSuff[i-1][j-1] + 1;

                result = max(result, LCSuff[i][j]);

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            }
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            else LCSuff[i][j] = 0;
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        }
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    }
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    return result;
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}
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/*Main */
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int main()
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{
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    char X[] = "Sanfoundry";
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    char Y[] = "foundation";
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    int m = strlen(X);
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    int n = strlen(Y);
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    cout << "Length of Longest Common Substring is " << LCSubStr(X, Y, m, n);

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    return 0;
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}
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$ g++ lcs.cpp
$ a.out
 
Length of Longest Common Substring is 5
 
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(program exited with code: 1)
Press return to continue

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