How to find the longest repeated substring of given string

Question

I am new java and I was given assignment to find the longest substring of a string. I research online and seems that good way of approaching this problem will be implementi

Answer 1

If you debug your code you will see that you the code isn't doing what you think. AFAIK you need at least three loops and you can't assume you would only start from the first character. Here is one possible solution.

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    String longest = longestDuplicate("ababcaabcabcaab");
    System.out.println(longest);
}

public static String longestDuplicate(String text) {
    String longest = "";
    for (int i = 0; i < text.length() - 2 * longest.length() * 2; i++) {
        OUTER:
        for (int j = longest.length() + 1; j * 2 < text.length() - i; j++) {
            String find = text.substring(i, i + j);
            for (int k = i + j; k <= text.length() - j; k++) {
                if (text.substring(k, k + j).equals(find)) {
                    longest = find;
                    continue OUTER;
                }
            }
            break;
        }
    }
    return longest;
}

prints

abcaab

for "reassuring" it prints r not s which was my first guess. ;)