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longest common substring

(classic problem)

Definition: Find the longest substring of two or more strings.

See also longest common subsequence, shortest common superstring.

Note: The longest common substring is contiguous, while the longest common subsequence need not be.

Author: PEB

Implementation

(C and Mathematica)
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Paul E. Black, "longest common substring", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed. 2 November 2020. (accessed TODAY) Available from: https://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/longestCommonSubstring.html