JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures: Strings - Longest Common Substring

Longest common substring is a substring that is common to two strings. Learn how to find the longest common substring in JavaScript.

The longest common substring problem is to find the longest string (or strings) that is a substring (or are substrings) of two or more strings.

Example

The longest common substring of the strings ABABC, BABCA and ABCBA is string ABC of length 3. Other common substrings are A, AB, B, BA, BC and C.

ABABC
  |||
 BABCA
  |||
  ABCBA

References

• Wikipedia
• YouTube

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