Implement strStr()
.
Return the index of the first occurrence of needle in haystack, or -1 if needle
is not part of haystack
.
What should we return when needle
is an empty string? This is a great question to ask during an interview.
For the purpose of this problem, we will return 0 when needle
is an empty string. This is consistent to C’s strstr()
and Java’s indexOf()
.
Input: haystack = "hello", needle = "ll"
Output: 2
Input: haystack = "aaaaa", needle = "bba"
Output: -1
Input: haystack = "", needle = ""
Output: 0
var strStr = function (haystack, needle) {
if (!needle) return 0;
if (!haystack.includes(needle)) {
return -1;
} else {
return haystack.indexOf(needle);
}
};