DataStructure/Strings

Longest Common Prefix

ND Paul Kim 2018. 10. 25. 16:34

Write a function to find the longest common prefix string amongst an array of strings.

If there is no common prefix, return an empty string "".

Example 1:

Input: ["flower","flow","flight"]
Output: "fl"

Example 2:

Input: ["dog","racecar","car"]
Output: ""
Explanation: There is no common prefix among the input strings.

Note:

All given inputs are in lowercase letters a-z.


My solution:

class Solution:
def longestCommonPrefix(self, strs):
"""
:type strs: List[str]
:rtype: str
"""

if not strs:
return ""

shortest = min(strs, key=len)
strs.remove(shortest)

for i, ch in enumerate(shortest):
for compare in strs:
if ch != compare[i]:
return shortest[:i]

return shortest

Check out shortest List(str).

And then, let's find out prefix other List(str)