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Longest Common Substring Problem

The longest common substring problem is to find the longest string (or strings) that is a substring (or are substrings) of two or more strings.

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The longest common substring of the strings ABABC, BABCA and ABCBA is string ABC of length 3. Other common substrings are A, AB, B, BA, BC and C.

ABABC
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BABCA
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ABCBA

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