Rotate String Problem & Solution

Given two strings s and goal, return true if and only if s can become goal after some number of shifts on s.

A shift on s consists of moving the leftmost character of s to the rightmost position.

For example, if s = "abcde", then it will be "bcdea" after one shift.

See the rotate string problem on LeetCode.

C++ Solution

#pragma GCC optimize("Ofast")
#pragma GCC optimization("unroll-loops")

static const int _=[](){std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false);cin.tie(nullptr);cout.tie(nullptr);return 0;}();

class Solution {
public:
  bool rotateString(string s, string goal) {
    for (int i = 0; i < s.size(); ++i) {
      if (s == goal) {
        return true;
      }

      s = s.substr(1) + s.substr(0, 1);
    }

    return false;
  }
};

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