Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1504 [Hard]

Good morning! Here's your coding interview problem for today.

This problem was asked by Dropbox.

Implement an efficient string matching algorithm.

That is, given a string of length N and a pattern of length k, write a program that searches for the pattern in the string with less than O(N * k) worst-case time complexity.

If the pattern is found, return the start index of its location. If not, return False.

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