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pythonstringcountoverlap
markzzzz
markzzzz

Reputation: 99

Any way to count overlapped strings within another string?

What is the simple way to count the indexes(locations) of overlap characters identically between two string?

def overlap(string1, string2):

    count = 0

    for i in range(0,len(string1)-len(string2)+1):
        if string2 in string1[i:i+len(string2)]:
            count = count +1
    return count

I realize I have some issues with my function. Could someone please point out and explain? That would be so helpful!

sample:

overlap('abcb','dbeb') #output >>> 2, not 4
overlap('','winter')   #output >>> 0.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 68

Answers (1)

Sci Prog
Sci Prog

Reputation: 2691

Since the strings can have different lengths, use the minimum length. Then compare them using array indexes, character by character. Conceptually:

def overlap(string1, string2):
  count=0
  for i in range(min(len(string1),len(string2))):
    if string1[i] == string2[i]:
      count += 1
  return count

You could implement it with the zip built-in function (look at python documentation).

Upvotes: 1

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