Detect repetition in strings

Question

I have a list of strings:

abckdgsos
hdksabcjso
uddsgsabc
oshdoabcj
etc.

In each set of strings there are only a certain substring that is repeated. In this case it is "abc".

I tried making a for loop that would go through every character of every string, but it takes too long to complete the task.

It is basically a nested loop inside a nested loop.

Any suggestions or help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

yeah as u can see that i have replaced a string of single character with that of "" (null value).....
you can replace the similar string (here "abc") with that of null ("")........

Answer 2

see my code which removes similar characters from two strings

https://code.sololearn.com/cR2pDR3jNNau/?ref=app

its in java.....

Answer 3

line 22 and 23

Answer 4

use this
String a = "abckdgsos";
a=a.replace("abc","");

Answer 5

Hmm It's a good concept, but do you think we can do something similar with strings instead of characters? @chirag ghosh

Answer 6

At which line are you referring to?

Answer 7

Hmm. My problem is that the code should detect the repetition in strings, without any string coded in the program.
I'll go play a bit with your code and see if I can figure something out.