longest common substring in R finding non-contiguous matches between the two strings

Question

I have a question regarding finding the longest common substring in R. While searching through a few posts on StackOverflow, I got to know about the qualV package. However,

Answer 1

df <- data.frame(A. = c("Australia", "Network"),
                 B. = c("Austria", "Netconnect"), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

 auxFun <- function(x) {

   a <- strsplit(x[[1]], "")[[1]]
   b  <- strsplit(x[[2]], "")[[1]]
   lastchar <- suppressWarnings(which(!(a == b)))[1] - 1

   if(lastchar > 0){
     out <- paste0(a[1:lastchar], collapse = "")
   } else {
     out <- ""
   }

   return(out)
 }

 df$C. <- apply(df, 1, auxFun)

 df
 A.         B.    C.
 1 Australia    Austria Austr
 2   Network Netconnect   Net