. Rotate String

796. Rotate String

Difficulty: Easy

Topics: String, String Matching

Given two strings s and goal, return true if and only if s can become goal after some number of shifts on s.

A shift on s consists of moving the leftmost character of s to the rightmost position.

• For example, if s = "abcde", then it will be "bcdea" after one shift.

Example 1:

• Input: s = "abcde", goal = "cdeab"
• Output: true

Example 2:

• Input: s = "abcde", goal = "abced"
• Output: false

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length, goal.length <= 100
• s and goal consist of lowercase English letters.

Solution:

We can take advantage of the properties of string concatenation. Specifically, if we concatenate the string s with itself (i.e., s s), all possible rotations of s will appear as substrings within that concatenated string. This allows us to simply check if goal is a substring of s s.

Let's implement this solution in PHP: 796. Rotate String

  
  
  Explanation:



Length Check: We first check if the lengths of s and goal are the same. If they are not, we immediately return false, as it's impossible for s to be transformed into goal.
Concatenation: We concatenate the string s with itself to create doubleS.
Substring Check: We use the strpos() function to check if goal exists as a substring in doubleS. If it does, we return true; otherwise, we return false.



  
  
  Complexity:




Time Complexity: O(n), where n is the length of the string, due to the concatenation and substring search.

Space Complexity: O(n) for the concatenated string.


This solution efficiently determines if one string can become another through rotations.

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