Longest Common Prefix
You are given an array ‘ARR’ consisting of ‘N’ strings. Your task is to find the longest common prefix among all these strings. If there is no common prefix, you have to return an empty string.
A prefix of a string can be defined as a substring obtained after removing some or all characters from the end of the string.
For Example:
Consider ARR = [“coding”, ”codezen”, ”codingninja”, ”coders”]
The longest common prefix among all the given strings is “cod” as it is present as a prefix in all strings. Hence, the answer is “cod”.
Input Format:
The first line of the input contains a single integer, 'T,’ denoting the number of test cases.
The first line of each test case contains a single integer ‘N’ denoting the number of strings in the array.
The next line contains ‘N’ space-separated strings denoting the elements of the array ‘ARR’.
Output Format:
For each test case, print a single string corresponding to the longest common prefix.
Print the output of each test case in a separate line.
Note:
You do not need to print anything. It has already been taken care of. Just implement the given function.
Constraints:
1 <= T <= 10
1 <= N <= 3000
1 <= |ARR[i]| <=1000
Each string consists of only lowercase letters.
Time limit: 1 sec
Vaishu Sumthankar
2y
Binary Search In this approach, we will first find the string with the minimum length among all the strings in the array and store it as prefix because the shortest string is the longest possible com...read more
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