Rotate String

We are given two strings, A and B.

A shift on A consists of taking string A and moving the leftmost character to the rightmost position. For example, if A = 'abcde', then it will be 'bcdea' after one shift on A. Return True if and only if A can become B after some number of shifts on A.

Example 1:
Input: A = 'abcde', B = 'cdeab'
Output: true

Example 2:
Input: A = 'abcde', B = 'abced'
Output: false

Note:

  • A and B will have length at most 100.

我们其实可以在A之后再加上一个A,这样如果新的字符串(A+A)中包含B的话,说明A一定能通过偏移得到B。就比如题目中的例子,A="abcde", B="bcdea",那么A+A="abcdeabcde",里面是包括B的,所以返回true即可,

class Solution {
    public boolean rotateString(String A, String B) {
        if(A.length() != B.length())
            return false;
        
        A = A+A;
        
        if(A.toLowerCase().contains(B.toLowerCase())){
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

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