The following is a demo question from a coding interview site called codility:
A prefix of a string S is any leading contiguous part of S. For example
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String input = "abababa";
String prefix;
int product;
int maxProduct = 0;
for (int i = 1; i <= input.length(); i++) {
prefix = input.substring(0, i);
String substr;
int occurs = 0;
for (int j = prefix.length(); j <= input.length(); j++) {
substr = input.substring(0, j);
if (substr.endsWith(prefix))
occurs++;
}
product = occurs*prefix.length();
System.out.println("product of " + prefix + " = " +
prefix.length() + " * " + occurs +" = " + product);
maxProduct = (product > maxProduct)?product:maxProduct;
}
System.out.println("maxProduct = " + maxProduct);
}
}