[leetcode 27]Implement strStr()

1 题目：

Implement strStr().

Returns the index of the first occurrence of needle in haystack, or -1 if needle is not part of haystack.

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2 思路：

估计是要实现KMP算法。

正好我从大二就开始想把它看懂。。。

这次搞明白了。

我是 谷歌 “KMP 通俗”，前面有三个帖子，看完后，差不多才懂得。

3 代码：

    /* KMP method */
    //
    public int strStr(String haystack, String needle) {
        // pre handle
        if( needle.length()==0){
            return 0;
        }
        if(haystack.length()==0){
            return -1;
        }

        char[] target = haystack.toCharArray();
        char[] point = needle.toCharArray();

        // build the point array, the last feature[len-1] not satify the sub-prifix & sub-suffix rule, but not matter,the feature[len-1] will not be use
        Integer[] feature = new Integer[needle.length()];
        feature[0] = 0;
        for(int i=1; i<needle.length()-1; i++){
            if(point[i]!=point[feature[i-1]]){
                feature[i] = 0;
            }else{
                feature[i] = feature[i-1]+1;
            }
        }

        // search
        int j = 0;
        for(int i=0; i<haystack.length();){
            if(target[i]==point[j]){
                j++;
                if(j == needle.length()){
                    // match, return index
                    return i-j+1;
                }
                i++;
            }else{
                if(j == 0){
                    /* j=0 not match,i++ */
                    i++;
                }else{
                    /* not match, continue to compare target[i] */
                    j = feature[j-1];
                }
            }
        }

        return -1;
    }