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3043. Find the Length of the Longest Common Prefix

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ArrayStringTrieHash FunctionRolling Hash

Problem Overview

Find length of longest common prefix between all pairs of strings from two arrays.

Intuition

Find length of longest common prefix between all pairs of strings from two arrays.

Algorithm

  1. 1Trie on arr1. For each string in arr2: traverse Trie, find longest matching prefix.
  2. 2Return max matching length.

Common Pitfalls

  • •Build Trie from arr1. Query each word of arr2 against Trie.
3043.cs
C#
// Approach: Store all string prefixes of arr2 numbers in a HashSet; for each arr1 number find max prefix length.
// Time: O((n + m) * d) Space: O(m * d)

public class Solution
{
    public int LongestCommonPrefix(int[] arr1, int[] arr2)
    {
        int ans = 0;
        Trie trie = new Trie();

        foreach (int num in arr1)
            trie.Insert(num.ToString());

        foreach (int num in arr2)
            ans = Math.Max(ans, trie.Search(num.ToString()));

        return ans;
    }
}

class TrieNode
{
    public TrieNode[] children = new TrieNode[10];
}

class Trie
{
    private TrieNode root = new TrieNode();

    public void Insert(string word)
    {
        TrieNode node = root;
        foreach (char c in word)
        {
            int i = c - '0';
            if (node.children[i] == null)
                node.children[i] = new TrieNode();
            node = node.children[i];
        }
    }

    public int Search(string word)
    {
        int prefixLength = 0;
        TrieNode node = root;
        foreach (char c in word)
        {
            int i = c - '0';
            if (node.children[i] == null)
                break;
            node = node.children[i];
            prefixLength++;
        }
        return prefixLength;
    }
}
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