Repeated String |
Given a string S (containing at most 105 lowercase English letters). You are requested to find out from continuous substrings a string having length from L to H, which appears the most times; if there are more than one answer, find the most length.
Input
There are several test cases (fifteen at most), each formed as follows:
- The first line contains two positive integers L, H.
- The second line contains the string S.
Output
For each test case, output on a line two integers which are the number of times appearing and the length of the found string, respectively.
Example
Input: 3 5 aabcbcbca 3 5 baaaababababbababbab 1 4 abcd 0 0 Output: 2 4 6 3 1 4
Explanation
Case #1: bcbc occurs twice - at position 3 and position 5 (occurrences may overlap).Case #2: bab occurs 6 times.
Case #3: abcd occurs 1 time.
MAKING SOLUTION
At first, it is easy to prove that if there exists a substring with the length of K (K > 1) appearing the most times, there must exist another substring with the length of K-1 appearing the same times (it is such a prefix of the substring length K). So we will find the most appearing substring with the length of L to determine the most times T (first result). Then to find the longest substring appearing T times (second result), we just use binary search to solve it.
The key of both steps is counting the number of times that a substring appears. Theoretically we can use a SUFFIX TREE to solve it (easy to find documents over the internet).
The key of both steps is counting the number of times that a substring appears. Theoretically we can use a SUFFIX TREE to solve it (easy to find documents over the internet).
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