Greatest common substring
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Create a program or function which takes a list of strings as input, and outputs the longest string that is a substring of all input strings. If there are several substrings of equal length, and no longer substring, output any one of them.
- This may mean outputting the empty string.
- If there are several valid outputs, you may output any one of them. You are not required to give consistent outpput for a given input so long as the output is always valid.
- There will always be at least one string in the input, but there might not be a non-empty string.
- All printable ASCII characters may appear in the input. You may assume those are the only characters that appear.
- You may take input or produce output by any of the default methods.
Standard loopholes aren't allowed.- This is code-golf - the fewer bytes of code, the better.
Test cases:
[Inputs] -> [Valid outputs (choose one)]
["hello", "'ello"] -> ["ello"]
["very", "much", "different"] -> [""]
["empty", "", "STRING"] -> [""]
["identical", "identical"] -> ["identical"]
["string", "stRIng"] -> ["st", "ng"]
["this one", "is a substring of this one"] -> ["this one"]
["just one"] -> ["just one"]
["", "", ""] -> [""]
["many outputs", "stuptuo ynam"] -> ["m", "a", "n", "y", " ", "o", "u", "t", "p", "s"]
["many inputs", "any inputs", "ny iii", "yanny"] -> ["ny"]
["%%not&", "ju&#st", "[&]alpha_numeric"] -> ["%"]
code-golf string subsequence
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Create a program or function which takes a list of strings as input, and outputs the longest string that is a substring of all input strings. If there are several substrings of equal length, and no longer substring, output any one of them.
- This may mean outputting the empty string.
- If there are several valid outputs, you may output any one of them. You are not required to give consistent outpput for a given input so long as the output is always valid.
- There will always be at least one string in the input, but there might not be a non-empty string.
- All printable ASCII characters may appear in the input. You may assume those are the only characters that appear.
- You may take input or produce output by any of the default methods.
Standard loopholes aren't allowed.- This is code-golf - the fewer bytes of code, the better.
Test cases:
[Inputs] -> [Valid outputs (choose one)]
["hello", "'ello"] -> ["ello"]
["very", "much", "different"] -> [""]
["empty", "", "STRING"] -> [""]
["identical", "identical"] -> ["identical"]
["string", "stRIng"] -> ["st", "ng"]
["this one", "is a substring of this one"] -> ["this one"]
["just one"] -> ["just one"]
["", "", ""] -> [""]
["many outputs", "stuptuo ynam"] -> ["m", "a", "n", "y", " ", "o", "u", "t", "p", "s"]
["many inputs", "any inputs", "ny iii", "yanny"] -> ["ny"]
["%%not&", "ju&#st", "[&]alpha_numeric"] -> ["%"]
code-golf string subsequence
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Possible duplicate
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– Adám
1 hour ago
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@Adám That question asks for the longest common subsequence, not substring.
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– Doorknob♦
1 hour ago
1
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Will the strings be only alphanumeric, or alphabetic, or only printable-ascii?
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– Embodiment of Ignorance
31 mins ago
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@EmbodimentofIgnorance All printable ASCII characters can appear in the input.
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– Sara J
17 mins ago
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Create a program or function which takes a list of strings as input, and outputs the longest string that is a substring of all input strings. If there are several substrings of equal length, and no longer substring, output any one of them.
- This may mean outputting the empty string.
- If there are several valid outputs, you may output any one of them. You are not required to give consistent outpput for a given input so long as the output is always valid.
- There will always be at least one string in the input, but there might not be a non-empty string.
- All printable ASCII characters may appear in the input. You may assume those are the only characters that appear.
- You may take input or produce output by any of the default methods.
Standard loopholes aren't allowed.- This is code-golf - the fewer bytes of code, the better.
Test cases:
[Inputs] -> [Valid outputs (choose one)]
["hello", "'ello"] -> ["ello"]
["very", "much", "different"] -> [""]
["empty", "", "STRING"] -> [""]
["identical", "identical"] -> ["identical"]
["string", "stRIng"] -> ["st", "ng"]
["this one", "is a substring of this one"] -> ["this one"]
["just one"] -> ["just one"]
["", "", ""] -> [""]
["many outputs", "stuptuo ynam"] -> ["m", "a", "n", "y", " ", "o", "u", "t", "p", "s"]
["many inputs", "any inputs", "ny iii", "yanny"] -> ["ny"]
["%%not&", "ju&#st", "[&]alpha_numeric"] -> ["%"]
code-golf string subsequence
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Create a program or function which takes a list of strings as input, and outputs the longest string that is a substring of all input strings. If there are several substrings of equal length, and no longer substring, output any one of them.
- This may mean outputting the empty string.
- If there are several valid outputs, you may output any one of them. You are not required to give consistent outpput for a given input so long as the output is always valid.
- There will always be at least one string in the input, but there might not be a non-empty string.
- All printable ASCII characters may appear in the input. You may assume those are the only characters that appear.
- You may take input or produce output by any of the default methods.
Standard loopholes aren't allowed.- This is code-golf - the fewer bytes of code, the better.
Test cases:
[Inputs] -> [Valid outputs (choose one)]
["hello", "'ello"] -> ["ello"]
["very", "much", "different"] -> [""]
["empty", "", "STRING"] -> [""]
["identical", "identical"] -> ["identical"]
["string", "stRIng"] -> ["st", "ng"]
["this one", "is a substring of this one"] -> ["this one"]
["just one"] -> ["just one"]
["", "", ""] -> [""]
["many outputs", "stuptuo ynam"] -> ["m", "a", "n", "y", " ", "o", "u", "t", "p", "s"]
["many inputs", "any inputs", "ny iii", "yanny"] -> ["ny"]
["%%not&", "ju&#st", "[&]alpha_numeric"] -> ["%"]
code-golf string subsequence
code-golf string subsequence
edited 12 mins ago
Sara J
asked 1 hour ago
Sara JSara J
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Possible duplicate
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– Adám
1 hour ago
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@Adám That question asks for the longest common subsequence, not substring.
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– Doorknob♦
1 hour ago
1
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Will the strings be only alphanumeric, or alphabetic, or only printable-ascii?
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– Embodiment of Ignorance
31 mins ago
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@EmbodimentofIgnorance All printable ASCII characters can appear in the input.
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– Sara J
17 mins ago
add a comment |
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Possible duplicate
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– Adám
1 hour ago
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@Adám That question asks for the longest common subsequence, not substring.
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– Doorknob♦
1 hour ago
1
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Will the strings be only alphanumeric, or alphabetic, or only printable-ascii?
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– Embodiment of Ignorance
31 mins ago
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@EmbodimentofIgnorance All printable ASCII characters can appear in the input.
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– Sara J
17 mins ago
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Possible duplicate
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– Adám
1 hour ago
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Possible duplicate
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– Adám
1 hour ago
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@Adám That question asks for the longest common subsequence, not substring.
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– Doorknob♦
1 hour ago
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@Adám That question asks for the longest common subsequence, not substring.
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– Doorknob♦
1 hour ago
1
1
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Will the strings be only alphanumeric, or alphabetic, or only printable-ascii?
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– Embodiment of Ignorance
31 mins ago
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Will the strings be only alphanumeric, or alphabetic, or only printable-ascii?
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– Embodiment of Ignorance
31 mins ago
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@EmbodimentofIgnorance All printable ASCII characters can appear in the input.
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– Sara J
17 mins ago
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@EmbodimentofIgnorance All printable ASCII characters can appear in the input.
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– Sara J
17 mins ago
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Jelly, 12 bytes
Ẇ€œ&/LÐṀḢ¹L?
Try it online!
Last four bytes are there because of the requirement to only output one answer.
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JavaScript (Node.js), 114 105 bytes
a=>(F=(l,n,w=a[0].substr(n,l))=>l?n<0?F(--l,L-l):a.some(y=>y.search(w)<0)?F(l,n-1):w:"")(L=a[0].length,0)
Try it online!
Probably still golfable.
y.indexOf
must be used in place of y.search
if the strings may contain special regex characters, at the cost of 1 more byte.
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Brachylog (v2), 3 bytes
sᵛw
Try it online!
Full program. Input from standard input (as a JSON-style list of strings), output to standard output.
Explanation
sᵛw
s Find a substring
ᵛ of every element {of the input}; the same one for each
w and output it.
Tiebreak order here is set by the s
, favouring the longest substring (the secondary tiebreak doesn't matter, but IIRC it's position within the first element of the input).
Brachylog's s
doesn't return empty substrings, so we need a bit of a trick to get around that: instead of making a function submission (which is what's normally done), we write a full program, outputting to standard output. That way, if there's a common substring, we just output it, and we're done. If there isn't a common substring, the program errors out – but it still prints nothing to standard output, thus it outputs the null string as intended.
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Python 3, 174 bytes
def a(b):
a=();c=list(sum((list(d[f:e]for f in range(e+1))for e in range(len(d)+1)),)for d in b)
for i in c[0]:
if all(i in j for j in c):a+=(i,)
return max(a,key=len)
Try it online!
New contributor
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You may want to use single spaces as indentation instead of 4 that seems to shave more than 100 bytes.
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– Shieru Asakoto
1 hour ago
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@ShieruAsakoto Oops yeah.
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– Artemis Fowl
1 hour ago
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135 bytes by simplifying thec
declaration and condensing thefor
loop. I would recommend adding the title and bytecount to the header, or using TIO's formatter to create the body of your post
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– Jo King
31 mins ago
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102 bytes by using set operators instead
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– Jo King
26 mins ago
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@JoKing tio.run/…
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– Artemis Fowl
8 mins ago
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Jelly, 12 bytes
Ẇ€œ&/LÐṀḢ¹L?
Try it online!
Last four bytes are there because of the requirement to only output one answer.
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add a comment |
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Jelly, 12 bytes
Ẇ€œ&/LÐṀḢ¹L?
Try it online!
Last four bytes are there because of the requirement to only output one answer.
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add a comment |
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Jelly, 12 bytes
Ẇ€œ&/LÐṀḢ¹L?
Try it online!
Last four bytes are there because of the requirement to only output one answer.
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Jelly, 12 bytes
Ẇ€œ&/LÐṀḢ¹L?
Try it online!
Last four bytes are there because of the requirement to only output one answer.
answered 1 hour ago
Nick KennedyNick Kennedy
92147
92147
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JavaScript (Node.js), 114 105 bytes
a=>(F=(l,n,w=a[0].substr(n,l))=>l?n<0?F(--l,L-l):a.some(y=>y.search(w)<0)?F(l,n-1):w:"")(L=a[0].length,0)
Try it online!
Probably still golfable.
y.indexOf
must be used in place of y.search
if the strings may contain special regex characters, at the cost of 1 more byte.
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add a comment |
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JavaScript (Node.js), 114 105 bytes
a=>(F=(l,n,w=a[0].substr(n,l))=>l?n<0?F(--l,L-l):a.some(y=>y.search(w)<0)?F(l,n-1):w:"")(L=a[0].length,0)
Try it online!
Probably still golfable.
y.indexOf
must be used in place of y.search
if the strings may contain special regex characters, at the cost of 1 more byte.
$endgroup$
add a comment |
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JavaScript (Node.js), 114 105 bytes
a=>(F=(l,n,w=a[0].substr(n,l))=>l?n<0?F(--l,L-l):a.some(y=>y.search(w)<0)?F(l,n-1):w:"")(L=a[0].length,0)
Try it online!
Probably still golfable.
y.indexOf
must be used in place of y.search
if the strings may contain special regex characters, at the cost of 1 more byte.
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JavaScript (Node.js), 114 105 bytes
a=>(F=(l,n,w=a[0].substr(n,l))=>l?n<0?F(--l,L-l):a.some(y=>y.search(w)<0)?F(l,n-1):w:"")(L=a[0].length,0)
Try it online!
Probably still golfable.
y.indexOf
must be used in place of y.search
if the strings may contain special regex characters, at the cost of 1 more byte.
edited 29 mins ago
answered 39 mins ago
Shieru AsakotoShieru Asakoto
2,750317
2,750317
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Brachylog (v2), 3 bytes
sᵛw
Try it online!
Full program. Input from standard input (as a JSON-style list of strings), output to standard output.
Explanation
sᵛw
s Find a substring
ᵛ of every element {of the input}; the same one for each
w and output it.
Tiebreak order here is set by the s
, favouring the longest substring (the secondary tiebreak doesn't matter, but IIRC it's position within the first element of the input).
Brachylog's s
doesn't return empty substrings, so we need a bit of a trick to get around that: instead of making a function submission (which is what's normally done), we write a full program, outputting to standard output. That way, if there's a common substring, we just output it, and we're done. If there isn't a common substring, the program errors out – but it still prints nothing to standard output, thus it outputs the null string as intended.
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add a comment |
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Brachylog (v2), 3 bytes
sᵛw
Try it online!
Full program. Input from standard input (as a JSON-style list of strings), output to standard output.
Explanation
sᵛw
s Find a substring
ᵛ of every element {of the input}; the same one for each
w and output it.
Tiebreak order here is set by the s
, favouring the longest substring (the secondary tiebreak doesn't matter, but IIRC it's position within the first element of the input).
Brachylog's s
doesn't return empty substrings, so we need a bit of a trick to get around that: instead of making a function submission (which is what's normally done), we write a full program, outputting to standard output. That way, if there's a common substring, we just output it, and we're done. If there isn't a common substring, the program errors out – but it still prints nothing to standard output, thus it outputs the null string as intended.
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add a comment |
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Brachylog (v2), 3 bytes
sᵛw
Try it online!
Full program. Input from standard input (as a JSON-style list of strings), output to standard output.
Explanation
sᵛw
s Find a substring
ᵛ of every element {of the input}; the same one for each
w and output it.
Tiebreak order here is set by the s
, favouring the longest substring (the secondary tiebreak doesn't matter, but IIRC it's position within the first element of the input).
Brachylog's s
doesn't return empty substrings, so we need a bit of a trick to get around that: instead of making a function submission (which is what's normally done), we write a full program, outputting to standard output. That way, if there's a common substring, we just output it, and we're done. If there isn't a common substring, the program errors out – but it still prints nothing to standard output, thus it outputs the null string as intended.
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Brachylog (v2), 3 bytes
sᵛw
Try it online!
Full program. Input from standard input (as a JSON-style list of strings), output to standard output.
Explanation
sᵛw
s Find a substring
ᵛ of every element {of the input}; the same one for each
w and output it.
Tiebreak order here is set by the s
, favouring the longest substring (the secondary tiebreak doesn't matter, but IIRC it's position within the first element of the input).
Brachylog's s
doesn't return empty substrings, so we need a bit of a trick to get around that: instead of making a function submission (which is what's normally done), we write a full program, outputting to standard output. That way, if there's a common substring, we just output it, and we're done. If there isn't a common substring, the program errors out – but it still prints nothing to standard output, thus it outputs the null string as intended.
answered 26 mins ago
community wiki
ais523
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Python 3, 174 bytes
def a(b):
a=();c=list(sum((list(d[f:e]for f in range(e+1))for e in range(len(d)+1)),)for d in b)
for i in c[0]:
if all(i in j for j in c):a+=(i,)
return max(a,key=len)
Try it online!
New contributor
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You may want to use single spaces as indentation instead of 4 that seems to shave more than 100 bytes.
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– Shieru Asakoto
1 hour ago
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@ShieruAsakoto Oops yeah.
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– Artemis Fowl
1 hour ago
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135 bytes by simplifying thec
declaration and condensing thefor
loop. I would recommend adding the title and bytecount to the header, or using TIO's formatter to create the body of your post
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– Jo King
31 mins ago
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102 bytes by using set operators instead
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– Jo King
26 mins ago
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@JoKing tio.run/…
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– Artemis Fowl
8 mins ago
|
show 2 more comments
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Python 3, 174 bytes
def a(b):
a=();c=list(sum((list(d[f:e]for f in range(e+1))for e in range(len(d)+1)),)for d in b)
for i in c[0]:
if all(i in j for j in c):a+=(i,)
return max(a,key=len)
Try it online!
New contributor
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You may want to use single spaces as indentation instead of 4 that seems to shave more than 100 bytes.
$endgroup$
– Shieru Asakoto
1 hour ago
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@ShieruAsakoto Oops yeah.
$endgroup$
– Artemis Fowl
1 hour ago
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135 bytes by simplifying thec
declaration and condensing thefor
loop. I would recommend adding the title and bytecount to the header, or using TIO's formatter to create the body of your post
$endgroup$
– Jo King
31 mins ago
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102 bytes by using set operators instead
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– Jo King
26 mins ago
$begingroup$
@JoKing tio.run/…
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– Artemis Fowl
8 mins ago
|
show 2 more comments
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Python 3, 174 bytes
def a(b):
a=();c=list(sum((list(d[f:e]for f in range(e+1))for e in range(len(d)+1)),)for d in b)
for i in c[0]:
if all(i in j for j in c):a+=(i,)
return max(a,key=len)
Try it online!
New contributor
$endgroup$
Python 3, 174 bytes
def a(b):
a=();c=list(sum((list(d[f:e]for f in range(e+1))for e in range(len(d)+1)),)for d in b)
for i in c[0]:
if all(i in j for j in c):a+=(i,)
return max(a,key=len)
Try it online!
New contributor
edited 4 mins ago
New contributor
answered 1 hour ago
Artemis FowlArtemis Fowl
1013
1013
New contributor
New contributor
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You may want to use single spaces as indentation instead of 4 that seems to shave more than 100 bytes.
$endgroup$
– Shieru Asakoto
1 hour ago
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@ShieruAsakoto Oops yeah.
$endgroup$
– Artemis Fowl
1 hour ago
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135 bytes by simplifying thec
declaration and condensing thefor
loop. I would recommend adding the title and bytecount to the header, or using TIO's formatter to create the body of your post
$endgroup$
– Jo King
31 mins ago
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102 bytes by using set operators instead
$endgroup$
– Jo King
26 mins ago
$begingroup$
@JoKing tio.run/…
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– Artemis Fowl
8 mins ago
|
show 2 more comments
$begingroup$
You may want to use single spaces as indentation instead of 4 that seems to shave more than 100 bytes.
$endgroup$
– Shieru Asakoto
1 hour ago
$begingroup$
@ShieruAsakoto Oops yeah.
$endgroup$
– Artemis Fowl
1 hour ago
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135 bytes by simplifying thec
declaration and condensing thefor
loop. I would recommend adding the title and bytecount to the header, or using TIO's formatter to create the body of your post
$endgroup$
– Jo King
31 mins ago
$begingroup$
102 bytes by using set operators instead
$endgroup$
– Jo King
26 mins ago
$begingroup$
@JoKing tio.run/…
$endgroup$
– Artemis Fowl
8 mins ago
$begingroup$
You may want to use single spaces as indentation instead of 4 that seems to shave more than 100 bytes.
$endgroup$
– Shieru Asakoto
1 hour ago
$begingroup$
You may want to use single spaces as indentation instead of 4 that seems to shave more than 100 bytes.
$endgroup$
– Shieru Asakoto
1 hour ago
$begingroup$
@ShieruAsakoto Oops yeah.
$endgroup$
– Artemis Fowl
1 hour ago
$begingroup$
@ShieruAsakoto Oops yeah.
$endgroup$
– Artemis Fowl
1 hour ago
$begingroup$
135 bytes by simplifying the
c
declaration and condensing the for
loop. I would recommend adding the title and bytecount to the header, or using TIO's formatter to create the body of your post$endgroup$
– Jo King
31 mins ago
$begingroup$
135 bytes by simplifying the
c
declaration and condensing the for
loop. I would recommend adding the title and bytecount to the header, or using TIO's formatter to create the body of your post$endgroup$
– Jo King
31 mins ago
$begingroup$
102 bytes by using set operators instead
$endgroup$
– Jo King
26 mins ago
$begingroup$
102 bytes by using set operators instead
$endgroup$
– Jo King
26 mins ago
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@JoKing tio.run/…
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If this is an answer to a challenge…
…Be sure to follow the challenge specification. However, please refrain from exploiting obvious loopholes. Answers abusing any of the standard loopholes are considered invalid. If you think a specification is unclear or underspecified, comment on the question instead.
…Try to optimize your score. For instance, answers to code-golf challenges should attempt to be as short as possible. You can always include a readable version of the code in addition to the competitive one.
Explanations of your answer make it more interesting to read and are very much encouraged.…Include a short header which indicates the language(s) of your code and its score, as defined by the challenge.
More generally…
…Please make sure to answer the question and provide sufficient detail.
…Avoid asking for help, clarification or responding to other answers (use comments instead).
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– Adám
1 hour ago
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@Adám That question asks for the longest common subsequence, not substring.
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– Doorknob♦
1 hour ago
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Will the strings be only alphanumeric, or alphabetic, or only printable-ascii?
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– Embodiment of Ignorance
31 mins ago
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@EmbodimentofIgnorance All printable ASCII characters can appear in the input.
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– Sara J
17 mins ago