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 of A and B will be between 1 and 10000.
The idea is to keep string builder and appending until the length A is greater or equal to B.
use a while loop to keep adding A to stringBuilder until sb.length() >= B.length(); see if B is a substring of sb.
why == should break as well? because it's possible for sb == B. like A = "ABC", B = "ABCABC"
1 class Solution { 2 public int repeatedStringMatch(String A, String B) { 3 StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); 4 int res = 0; 5 while (sb.length() < B.length()) { 6 sb.append(A); 7 res ++; 8 } 9 if (sb.toString().contains(B)) return res; 10 if (sb.append(A).toString().contains(B)) return ++res; 11 return -1; 12 } 13 }