Given two strings A and B, find the minimum number of times A has to be repeated such that B is a substring of it. If no such solution, return -1.
For example, with A = "abcd" and B = "cdabcdab".
Return 3, because by repeating A three times (“abcdabcdabcd”), B is a substring of it; and B is not a substring of A repeated two times ("abcdabcd").
Note:
The length ofA
andB
will be between 1 and 10000.
class Solution {
public int repeatedStringMatch(String A, String B) {
int count = 1;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(A);
for (; sb.length() < B.length(); count++){
sb.append(A);
}
if (sb.toString().indexOf(B) >= 0) return count;
if (sb.append(A).toString().indexOf(B) >= 0) return count + 1;
return -1;
}
}