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1967. Number of Strings That Appear as Substrings in Word

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Description

Given an array of strings patterns and a string word, return the number of strings in patterns that exist as a substring in word.

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.

 

Example 1:

Input: patterns = ["a","abc","bc","d"], word = "abc"
Output: 3
Explanation:
- "a" appears as a substring in "abc".
- "abc" appears as a substring in "abc".
- "bc" appears as a substring in "abc".
- "d" does not appear as a substring in "abc".
3 of the strings in patterns appear as a substring in word.

Example 2:

Input: patterns = ["a","b","c"], word = "aaaaabbbbb"
Output: 2
Explanation:
- "a" appears as a substring in "aaaaabbbbb".
- "b" appears as a substring in "aaaaabbbbb".
- "c" does not appear as a substring in "aaaaabbbbb".
2 of the strings in patterns appear as a substring in word.

Example 3:

Input: patterns = ["a","a","a"], word = "ab"
Output: 3
Explanation: Each of the patterns appears as a substring in word "ab".

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= patterns.length <= 100
  • 1 <= patterns[i].length <= 100
  • 1 <= word.length <= 100
  • patterns[i] and word consist of lowercase English letters.

Solution

number-of-strings-that-appear-as-substrings-in-word.py
class Solution:
    def numOfStrings(self, patterns: List[str], word: str) -> int:
        res = 0

        for p in patterns:
            if p in word:
                res += 1

        return res