Square Subsequence

Question

A string is called a square string if it can be obtained by concatenating two copies of the same string. For example, \"abab\", \"aa\" are square strings, while \"aaa\", \"a

Answer 1

Psuedocode:

total_square_substrings <- 0

# Find every substring
for i in 1:length_of_string {

    # Odd strings are not square, continue
    if((length_of_string-i) % 2 == 1)
        continue;

    for j in 1:length_of_string {
        # Remove i characters from the string, starting at character j
        substring <- substr(string,0,j) + substr(string,j+1,length_of_string);

        # Test all ways of splitting the substring into even, whole parts (e.g. if string is of length 15, this splits by 3 and 5)
        SubstringTest: for(k in 2:(length_of_substring/2))
        {           
            if(length_of_substring % k > 0)
                continue;

            first_partition <- substring[1:partition_size];

            # Test every partition against the first for equality, if all pass, we have a square substring
            for(m in 2:k)
            {           
                if(first_partition != substring[(k-1)*partition_size:k*partition_size])
                    continue SubstringTest;
            }

            # We have a square substring, move on to next substring
            total_square_substrings++;
            break SubstringTest;
        }
    }
}